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Title: DEJA DEAD: A NOVEL CASSETTE : A Novel by Kathleen J. Reichs, Kathy Reichs, Amy Irving ISBN: 0-671-57706-9 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (165 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Astonishing Debut
Comment: No wonder people have been urging me to read Kathleen Reichs! I finally caved in, began with "Deja Dead," her debut novel, and was swept away by her incredible brilliance.
This is a book that simply cannot be put down. I read it before work, I read it on the train, I snuck it in between tasks at work, I read it at lunch, I read it far into the night when my eyes were hanging on stalks. And still I had to race to the finish.
Temperance Brennan is a fortyish American forensic anthropologist from the South, who is working in French-speaking Montreal. A recovering alcoholic, she is divorced, mother of a college-age daughter, troubled--and incredibly good at what she does. In a tight story heavily interspersed with fascinating scenarios of Montreal, Temperance (called "Tempe") is called upon to autopsy a young female victim of a pathologically gruesome murder. This leads to a foray into the Dark Side as Tempe, convinced that she has seen the work of a vicious serial killer, sets out to prove it to her skeptical (and often chauvinistic) male colleagues.
The exquisitely insane nature of the killer, made all too clear by the havoc he wreaks on his victims, forces Tempe to face her own demons and she tries to stop one from real life. But he may be impossible to stop.
Perhaps "Deja Dead" is to brilliant because in real life, Reichs IS a forensic anthropologist who has lived and worked in the South and in Montreal. Whatever the cause, it is obvious that she is a born writer. I gave this book five stars because it is impossible to give ten. Needless to say, I am already on Book Two of the Temperance Brennan series, and won't be able to stop until I have read them all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Murder, Canadian Style
Comment: Temperance (Tempe) Brennan is an American forensic anthropologist from North Carolina, working in Montreal. She's divorced, a recovering alcoholic and she has a nineteen year old daughter who lives with her father. She's also hot on the trail of a serial killer.
When Tempe autopsies the remains of a female murder victim, she sees similarities between her current case and one that she'd seen before. She thinks a serial killer may be at work. However, the male cops don't believe her and she goes after the killer herself, putting her best friend and daughter in danger.
Not the most original of plots, but Reichs is a wonderful writer who gives us Stephen King like descriptions in a combination Dean Koontz, Jack Priest horror novel crossed with a Patricia Cornwell thriller and a little Iris Johansen pace thrown into the pot. I have to give this book five stars. It's an excellent first novel, I loved every bit of it.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene
Rating: 1
Summary: What a lot of rubbish
Comment: This is like a _very_ trashy cheap Hollywood film, and she probably wrote it hoping it would become one. I kept wondering that a highly qualified person could waste her time producing such garbage, until I realised that a "forensic anthropologist" is nothing like a doctor or a coroner although she sure would have liked to become one. Basically it is a succession of whoppers defying the best-developed suspension of disbelief. Do _not_, under any circumstances buy into any positive review of this book, because it really is cheap junk. It goes like this: a lady forensic anthropologist who goes all alone to find & investigate an obvious crime scene with a fresh corpse. Then she discovers that her true vocation was actually to become a detective and gets on to do the cops' job. Thus she falls out with the cop who _is_ in charge of the investigation because he is not, in her opinion, thorough or professional enough. It all ends up with her going along with the cops in the police car to arrest the suspect (the police don't mind her going with them right into the suspect's flat, it' allright, they say). Unfortunately he manages to run away from a small flat crowded with policemen and the forensic anthropologist. The murderer outruns all the policemen but ONLY HER manages to spot him as he runs, and she goes for the chase. Oh, and at another point she decides to go on a solo amateur-police trip to some out-of-town lonely plot AT NIGHT (so she needs to use a torch which, of course, runs out of batteries) because she is too impatient to wait for daylight even though it is June in Montreal. And guess who she meets there -YES- THE MURDERER!! Who you would expect would rape and kill her like all the others but this time he chooses just to knock her out and run away, only coming back to plant a skull on top of a stick in her garden. It is all like this. In a word, pathetic. The language is full of extravagant comparisons which only distract from the main thrill. The narration in 1st person I find somehow unsuitable, it makes the story sound too girly (which it would be anyway) and very self-centred. One last thing: Ms Reichs is obviously fascinated by the richness and complexity of life in a bilingual community like Quebec and therefore goes out of the way to supply illustrations whenever possible but, to the many millions of people who have grown up and live every day in bilingual environments, that is dead-boring stuff. That having been said, the story sometimes manages to be quite absorbing, as all thrillers are set to do, and if you are on holiday and it is the only book in the library written in English it can be very entertaining.
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Title: Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671011375 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028367 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028375 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028383 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bare Bones : A Novel by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0743233468 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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