Death du jour

About this book

"Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should be lying 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth Nicolet'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? And where are the children?"--BOOK JACKET.

"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 sociologist, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island. Tempe is overwhelmed by the case, confused by her mounting attraction to Ryan, and plagued by worries about her sister Harry's search for spiritual awakening."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• arson investigation
• brennan, temperance (fictitious character), fiction
• fictio
• fiction
• fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
• fiction, suspense
• fiction, thrillers, suspense
• forensic anthropology
• forensic pathologists, fiction
• forensic sciences
• large type books
• medical examiners (law)
• montreal (quebec), fiction
• north carolina, fiction
• south carolina, fiction
• temperance brennan (fictitious character)
• women anthropologists
• women detectives
• women forensic anthropologists