num_pages: 560
description: Kathy Reichs blasts into Patricia Cornwell territory -- and onto the New York Times bestseller list -- with this critically acclaimed debut novel inspired by Reichs' own career. Dr. Temperance Brennan, the wry, impassioned director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, is driven to unravel shocking acts of violence by reading the bones of the dead. In the year since Tempe left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. But when an unidentified female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in garbage bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern within the grisly handiwork -- and her professional detachment gives way to a harrowing search for a killer in the city's winding streets. With little help from the police, Tempe calls on her expertise, honed in the isolated intensity of the autopsy suite, to investigate on her own. But her determined chase is about to place those closest to her -- her best friend and her daughter -- in mortal danger....
language: English
title: Déjà Dead
titlecomplete: Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
characters: Andrew Ryan, Pierre LaManche, Luc Claudel, Temperance Brennan
genres: Mystery, Adult, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Audiobook, Canada, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 148526
places: Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec), Quebec (Québec)
series: Temperance Brennan
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Arthur Ellis Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Pocket Star