Death du Jour

Bone work (Death du jour ) is the second crime novel of the American author Kathy Reichs. He was released on 18 May 1999 by the Scribner publishing house, the German translation of Klaus Berr brought Karl Blessing Verlag in the same year out.

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The main character of the novels of Kathy Reichs, the forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance ' " Tempe " Brennan is one morning, called to a crime scene to St. Jovite, a small town in Quebec in March. There was found in a burned-down house seven dead bodies, including two baby boys, twins, where the heart was removed. To distract himself from this horrible event is tempe care alongside a rather historic event. She was a nun of the north hired to exhume Sister Elisabeth Nicolet and identify, as they should be canonized posthumously. With her colleague Andrew Ryan finds in the investigation in the case of St. Jovite relationships with a mysterious sect from their homes North Carolina.

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• Also, the second novel is to be noted that the author - as well as her protagonist Tempe Brennan - forensic anthropologist by profession is. Given the very detailed and in-depth descriptions of their autopsies a critic wrote that the novel was " the best advertising brochure for the profession of forensic anthropologists ," which he knew.

• As with all her books, Empire integrates own experience in the events even with hard work. In this case, it is the experience they gained in investigations of incidents related to the Solar Temple cult.