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Death du Jour

Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial professor, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 451
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780671011376
  • Characters
  • Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan
  • Settings
  • Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec), Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Genres
  • mystery, crime, fiction, thriller, drama, suspense, novels, dark
  • Release date
  • 2006