Temperance Brennan · Book 3

Deadly Decisions

Published
1 January 2000
Pages
360
ISBN-13
9780754023708
Type
novel
Cover of Deadly Decisions

About this book

Deadly Decisions (2000), 360 pages, is the third entry, sitting between Death du Jour and Fatal Voyage. This early in the series, Tempe's uneasy romance with Quebec homicide detective Andrew Ryan and her recovering-alcoholic backstory are still developing alongside the forensic casework.

Key facts about Deadly Decisions

Kathy Reichs wrote Deadly Decisions, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2000. The book has 360 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780754023708 to find the main one.

Deadly Decisions is book 3 of 28 in the Temperance Brennan series. The series has 28 published books. However, the series starts with Déjà Dead (1997).

Additionally, Kathy Reichs writes Virals as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and young adult shelves. Meanwhile, Evil Bones is the latest published Kathy Reichs book on file, from 2025.

About Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs is an American forensic anthropologist and novelist whose Temperance Brennan series -- beginning with Deja Dead in 1997 -- draws directly on her own casework identifying remains for the Montreal medico-legal lab and testifying at the UN tribunal on the Rwandan genocide. See every Kathy Reichs book in order.

Its place in Temperance Brennan

Deadly Decisions is book 3 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Death du Jour. It is followed by Fatal Voyage. See the full Temperance Brennan reading order.

Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who splits her working life between Montreal and North Carolina, identifying the dead from skeletal remains, decomposed bodies and crime-scene fragments that ordinary detectives can't make sense of. Kathy Reichs, herself a practicing forensic anthropologist, grounds every case in real bone science and lab procedure -- how to read trauma, age and cause of death from a skeleton -- rendered with a level of technical authenticity that set the template for…

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