Deja Dead

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Author : Kathy Reichs
Binding : Mass Market Paperback
EAN : 9780671011369
Edition : 1
Number of Pages : 560
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 1998-06-01
Publisher : Pocket Star

ASIN : 0671011367

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Eloquent (2007-11-21)

Ms Reichs is an eloquent writer an expert in forensic anthropology she is able to add all those sordid little details that makes this novel a page turner. Déjà Dead is a fascinating blend of pathology mixed with the vibrant scenes of Montreal. The characters have depth and personality and the plot will have you biting your nails till the end.

truly chilling (2006-10-09)

ive read quite a few of kathy reichs books and this, her first outing with her character temperance brennan is by far the best. i love brennans take no prisoners/take no crap attitude and the last two chapters scared me so i got up to check the locks on the doors!! like the dust jacket says,"bring the dog in, lock the doors, read with lights on and dont be alone". unfortunately none of the subsequent books in this series that i have read are quite as good as this one, esp after she falls for the cop. he irritates me to death and she seems to lose her edge after pairing up with him. worth owning, but the other ones, id say take out at the library.

Wonderful Book!! (2004-07-06)

My first (but certainly not my last) Kathy Reichs book!! I was hooked from the very first of Deja Dead. Procedures were believable, informative and the book as a whole was very entertaining! I'll be looking for Deja Jour very soon!

exciting read, I stayed up too late (2004-06-19)

Kathy Reichs is the new Patricia Cornwell. Her forensic investigator heroine Tempe Brennan is smart and sassy, and this book kept me turning pages later into the night than I should have. The heroine has a dry humor that I liked, and the suspense, action and characterization were first-rate. A good, suspenseful read!

What a lot of rubbish (2004-05-08)

This is like a _very_ trashy cheap Hollywood film, and she probably wrote it hoping it would become one. I kept wondering that a highly qualified person could waste her time producing such garbage, until I realised that a "forensic anthropologist" is nothing like a doctor or a coroner although she sure would have liked to become one. Basically it is a succession of whoppers defying the best-developed suspension of disbelief. Do _not_, under any circumstances buy into any positive review of this book, because it really is cheap junk. It goes like this: a lady forensic anthropologist who goes all alone to find & investigate an obvious crime scene with a fresh corpse. Then she discovers that her true vocation was actually to become a detective and gets on to do the cops' job. Thus she falls out with the cop who _is_ in charge of the investigation because he is not, in her opinion, thorough or professional enough. It all ends up with her going along with the cops in the police car to arrest the suspect (the police don't mind her going with them right into the suspect's flat, it' allright, they say). Unfortunately he manages to run away from a small flat crowded with policemen and the forensic anthropologist. The murderer outruns all the policemen but ONLY HER manages to spot him as he runs, and she goes for the chase. Oh, and at another point she decides to go on a solo amateur-police trip to some out-of-town lonely plot AT NIGHT (so she needs to use a torch which, of course, runs out of batteries) because she is too impatient to wait for daylight even though it is June in Montreal. And guess who she meets there -YES- THE MURDERER!! Who you would expect would rape and kill her like all the others but this time he chooses just to knock her out and run away, only coming back to plant a skull on top of a stick in her garden. It is all like this. In a word, pathetic. The language is full of extravagant comparisons which only distract from the main thrill. The narration in 1st person I find somehow unsuitable, it makes the story sound too girly (which it would be anyway) and very self-centred. One last thing: Ms Reichs is obviously fascinated by the richness and complexity of life in a bilingual community like Quebec and therefore goes out of the way to supply illustrations whenever possible but, to the many millions of people who have grown up and live every day in bilingual environments, that is dead-boring stuff. That having been said, the story sometimes manages to be quite absorbing, as all thrillers are set to do, and if you are on holiday and it is the only book in the library written in English it can be very entertaining.

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