Death du Jour
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780671011376
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death du Jour (1999), 400 pages, is the second Temperance Brennan novel, following Déjà Dead and preceding Deadly Decisions. Kathy Reichs continues grounding Tempe's cases in the trauma, age and cause-of-death readings a real forensic anthropologist would perform on skeletal remains.
Key facts about Death du Jour
Kathy Reichs wrote Death du Jour, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1999. The book has 400 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780671011376 to find the main one.
Death du Jour is book 2 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
Death du Jour is book 2 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Déjà Dead. It is followed by Deadly Decisions. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671011376
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671043704
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9789573318552