num_pages: 451
description: 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.
language: English
title: Death du Jour
titlecomplete: Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
characters: Andrew Ryan, Temperance Brennan
genres: Mystery, Murder Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Canada, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 46832
places: Charlotte, North Carolina, Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec)
series: Temperance Brennan
publisher: Pocket Star