Monday Mourning

Monday Mourning A Novel by Kathy Reichs Internationally
acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times
bestselling author Kathy Reichs explores the Stockholm
syndrome—the psychology of a captive submitting to the
ideology of a captor—in this mesmerizing new thriller.
Temperance Brennan forensic anthropologist for both North
Carolina and Quebec has come from Charlotte to Montreal
during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert
witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her
notes but instead she’s digging in the basement of a pizza
parlor. Not fun. Freezing cold. Crawling rats. And now the
skeletonized remains of three young women. How did they
get there? When did they die? Homicide detective Luc
Claudel never Tempe’s greatest fan believes the bones are
historic. Not his case not his concern. The pizza parlor
owner found nineteenth-century buttons in the cellar with
the skeletons. Claudel takes them as an indicator of the
bones’ antiquity. But something doesn’t make sense. Tempe
examines the bones in her lab and establishes approximate
age with Carbon-14. Further study of tooth enamel tells
her where the women were born. If she’s right Claudel has
three recent murders on his hands. Definitely his case.
Detective Andrew Ryan meanwhile is acting mysteriously.
What are those private phone calls he takes in the other
room and why does he suddenly disappear just when Tempe is
beginning to hope he might be a permanent part of her
life? Looks like more lonely nights for Tempe and Birdie
her cat. As Tempe searches for answers in both her
personal and professional lives she finds herself drawn
deep into a web of evil from which there may be no escape.
Women have disappeared never to return…Tempe may be
next. With its powerful mix of nail-biting suspense and
cutting-edge forensic science Monday Mourning is the best
yet from this superbly gifted megastar author who as New
York Newsday says is “the real thing.”