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| Deja Dead | 
 enlarge | Creator: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: Pocket Star
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (223 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3775
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: US Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0671011367
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671011369
ASIN: 0671011367
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
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"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers. Her life is devoted to justice -- for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern -- and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her -- her best friend and her own daughter -- in mortal danger. . . .
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 Not a favorite July 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A fan of the TV show Bones, I sought out the first novel in the series which contains the character the show is based on.
I was disappointed. About the only thing the TV character has in common with her novel counterpart is name and occupation. The TV character is quirky and charming while the novel Tempe is boring and makes some rather stupid choices to further the plot.
The novel also committed what I consider a sin in the mystery genre - it did not give the reader enough clues to figure out the whodunnit, and actually gave "clues" which had nothing to do with the murder at all. What happened to the heavy handed allusions to the fish tanks? The killer becomes a rabbit out of the hat trick since we've only met his Uncle, and even that is brief.
I was a bit discombobulated by the vast differences in the Tempe character from TV to novel, and would have maybe liked the book better had I not first been a fan of the TV show. But I still found the plot paced awkwardly, the characters a bit stilted and one-dimensional and the mystery lacking.
Shaddap, already! Tell your story. July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would guesstimate this book to be 150,000 words long. It should have been no more than 90,000 words, if that. Novice novelist Kathy Reichs goes way overboard in her description of place, people, feelings, and scientific techniques. I can imagine consultations with her editor, who must have - should have - tried to get her to cut, cut, cut out the excessive verbiage. But, being new at this, I can understand that Reichs would have fought tooth and nail to protect her verbosity. And she apparently won out. That being said, I will now do a 180 degree turn and exclaim that this is one spellbinding and emotionally charged book. Her protagonist, Temperance Brennan, is a marvelous creation, an intelligent woman in a man's world who constantly has to fight this discriminatory attitude. And fight she does, often to her personal detriment. Yes, this is the same Brennan of the highly popular TV series "Bones," but once you get by the name and professional of a forensic scientist, there the similarities end. This Temperance has far more baggage to deal with than her TV counterpart, she is located in Montreal, and - as she tells us often enough - she is horny. But, like the TV show, we are caught up in a complicated, dangerous, and mesmerizing tale of crime and terror. This is the first of a series of Brennan books. I am going to take a break and then try another, hoping Reichs has learned from her mistakes and has cut back drastically on her blather while retaining her terrific story telling abilities.
 Bones works wonders with death June 23, 2008
If you have seen the TV show Bones, this is where it comes from. Kathy Reichs is a forensic pathologist for the provence of Quebec and the state of North Carolina. Her charactor is the same. It is part of the one of the few series that is good first book to last with no weak parts. If you like this type of book, this is your meat. Read this and you will want to write your own comment.
A Strong Debut by a Future Superstar June 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kathy Reichs has been writing forensic thrillers for about ten years now, and has emerged as one of the most successful new writers in the field. DEJA DEAD was his first novel featruing Temperance Brennan, and I enjoyed it for the most part.
This type of novel should be familiar to fans of CSI or the Patricia Cornwell books. Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist, but she spends a lot of time dissecting bodies and analyzing crime scenes. In real life, a person like Brennan would stay in the lab, but in this novel she pretty much investigates a serial killer on her own (it helps that most the male policeman around her are chauvasitic, incompetent pigs).
Reichs is a very decent writer, although she sometimes overdoes it with the flowery metaphors ("he was as thin as soup at a homeless shelter" is a common example). This novel also has a rather bloated feel, filled with a lot of background details that have little relevance to the plot. Reichs also fills the novel with pages of technical jargon that made my eyes glaze over at times, but these sections are easy to skip.
Overall, however, Temperance Brennan is a likable character and I kept turning the pages to see what would happen next. DEJA DEAD definitely maintained my interested until the very end. I'm guessing these novels get better with time, so I will definitely read more entires in this successful series.
Scientific & scary, in a good way May 9, 2008
This is the first of Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan novels and the first one I have read, but it will not be the last. Ms. Reichs writing is wonderfully descriptive - you really can visualize each scene while reading. Her skill at conveying the specific scientific details while maintaining the twists and turns of her well designed plot makes for a book you won't want to put down.
So, pick up the book, settle in to your favorite reading spot and get ready to be pulled in to Tempe's world. Just make sure the doors and windows are locked - you don't want to have to get up to make sure during the really scary parts...
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