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Pages
  
411 pp

Dewey Decimal
  
813/.54 21

Author
  
Followed by
  
Nominations
  
Dilys Award

3.9/5
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Language
  
Publication date
  
September 1997

OCLC
  
36485776

Originally published
  
September 1997

Genre
  
Crime Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Similar
  
Kathy Reichs books, Crime Fiction books

Déjà Dead is the first novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

Contents

It won the 1998 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

Plot

When the meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the ground of an abandoned monastery in Montreal, Canada, which is too "decomposed for standard autopsy", an anthropologist is requested.

Dr. Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, who has been researching recent disappearances in the city, is given the case. Despite the deep cynicism of Detective Claudel who heads the investigation, Brennan is convinced that a serial killer is at work. Her forensic expertise finally convinces Claudel, but only after the body count has risen. Brennan initiates an investigation, but her determined probing places those closest to her in danger.

Critical reception

Reichs' work was compared to the Kay Scarpetta novels by Patricia Cornwell.

References

Déjà Dead Wikipedia


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