Temperance Brennan · Book 1
Déjà Dead
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 509
- ISBN-13
- 9780684839066
- Type
- novel
About this book
Déjà Dead (1997) opens the Temperance Brennan series, introducing the forensic anthropologist splitting her working life between Montreal and North Carolina. At 509 pages, it establishes the technical authenticity — real bone science and lab procedure, courtesy of author Kathy Reichs's own forensic-anthropology career — that later inspired the TV series Bones.
Its place in Temperance Brennan
Déjà Dead is book 1 in the Temperance Brennan series. It is followed by Death du Jour. 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 9780099260660
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780684839066