Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan Novels)
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 813.54
EAN: 9780671011376
Ausgabe: Reprint
ISBN: 0671011375
Label: Pocket Books
Hersteller: Pocket Books
Anzahl Seiten: 480
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000-08
Herausgeber: Pocket Books
Studio: Pocket Books
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Produktbeschreibung:Amazon.co.uk:After one of the more startling crime debuts of recent years,
Déjà Dead, Kathy Reichs has found herself, at a stroke, regarded as a possible contender for Patricia Cornwell's crown as queen of forensic detection novels. As the new book opens, her forensic anthropologist heroine Temperance Brennan is doing what she usually does--helping to identify remains about which there is almost nothing suspicious. In this case she is dealing with a 19th-century nun of vast sanctity, for whose beatification her relics and burial site need authenticating. What could be simpler or less menacing? Almost immediately, Tempe is called in on a bad case: arson, which has left remains so damaged that a normal pathologist cannot cope--and the victims that pathologists normally cope with include infants stabbed to death.
Something sinister is going on, and whether in Quebec, where she has her practice, or the sleepy South, where she teaches, Tempe is not safe. Reichs' first book was good on the domesticity and friendship to which Tempe retreats--and this time we meet her younger sister, Harriet, who has just got rid of her balloonist lover and is looking for a new interest. --
Roz Kaveney
Amazon.com:"In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything. Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground. The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence... and some of last season's dead are not found until the spring melt." Readers of Kathy Reichs's cool and clever first forensic thriller
Déjà Dead will recognize the ironic voice of Tempe (short for Temperance) Brennan, the North Carolina-born scientist who winds up working at the Laboratoire de Médicine Légale in Montreal. Here she bristles at the conservative attitudes of some of her Canadian colleagues.
Despite the cold weather, Tempe's workload quickly becomes heavy: the bones of a long-dead nun now up for sainthood have been moved and tampered with; a deadly house fire turns out to be arson; and a university teaching assistant disappears after joining a cult. Tempe must figure out where (and why) all the bodies are buried in the hard Canadian ground. Her investigations take her home to North Carolina, and to a strange colony living on an offshore island.
Unlike certain other writers who specialize in forensic pathology, Reichs doesn't revel in the horror of death or rub our noses in gore: she uses the science of death to reveal rather than to shock or startle. It definitely makes for easier reading--especially at mealtimes.
--Dick Adler
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In diesem Buch bekommt es Temperance Brennan mit fürchterlichen Ritualmorden an kleinen Kindern zu tun. Und dazu noch ein paar weitere Leichen. Und diese in Kanada begangenen Morde scheinen sogar irgendwie mit welchen in den USA in Verbindung zu stehen. Dazu kommt ein merkwürdiger Kult und Tempe's durchgeknallte Schwester, die sich neuerdings für Esoterik und spirituelle Verbesserung interessiert. Das Buch ist so witzig und geistreich, wie man es von Kathy Reichs kennt, und außerdem sehr, sehr spannend.
Ich möchte nicht zu viel verraten, deswegen muss ich mich kurz halten. Aber ich kann noch sagen, dass einem bei Kathy Reichs zügigem Erzählstil nie langweilig wird. Und es gibt ganz viele Leichen! Toll! So muss ein Krimi sein!
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Auf der Suche nach anregender Unterhaltung beim Autofahren bin ich über Kathy Reichs gestolpert. Die angenehme Stimme der Vorleserin, der spannende Plot, manche Formulierungen zum Schmunzeln... kurz gesagt, die Stunden im Auto sind vorbeigeflogen und ich bin auf der Suche nach weiteren Audiobooks von Kathy Reichs. Übrigens, die englische Hörfassung ist recht gut verständlich, auch wenn man die Sprache nicht perfekt beherrrscht.
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A different kind of professional female sleuth with the feel of non-fiction fiction. The author is a real-life forensic anthropologist for the State of North Carolina, and is also a professor at The University of North Carolina. The author's character has been divorced, has a 'wacky' sister and a grown-up daughter,is working for the Province of Quebec and teaches at university as well. Dr. Temperance Brennan, the first person narrator, has co-workers who hate her and a male detective who irritates and attracts her. Real excitement is constantly being created because the distractions caused by her personal life interfere with her sleuthing, which the reader can figure out by a few minutes. Despite the University credentials of both character and author, the book is very readable and fast. If bone science doesn't give you the creeps, I suggest taking this book with you on summer vacation. (There is a lot of snowing in the book,a mental boost if the sun is getting too much.)
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Wow, this is definitely my thriller of this summer, forget Stephen King - this one will give you the creeps. Wonderful authentic and good researched - a definite page turner.
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The book was extremely good with its careful detail to scientific facts. I think the story got off to a very slow start and it took the author quite a while of pages to explain what she wanted from the readers in the beginning but after that the story ran smooth like water and I just couldnt put it down. I would really recommend this book but beware for the light hearted the description of deaths etc is not to nice
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