Author | Kathy Reichs |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Temperance Brennan |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | Scribner (US) Heinemann (UK) |
Publication date | 1999 |
Pages | 436 pp |
Preceded by | Déjà Dead |
Followed by | Deadly Decisions |
Death du Jour is the second novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of a church. Hours later she's called to the scene of an horrific arson, where a young family has perished. There seem to be no witnesses, motive and no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno to a trail of sinister cult activity which leads her to Beaufort, South Carolina and a terrifying showdown during an ice storm back in Canada, Brennan faces a test of both her forensic expertise and her survival instinct.