Temperance Brennan · Book 7

Monday Mourning

by Kathy Reichs

Published
1 January 2004
Pages
345
ISBN-13
9780743233477
Type
novel

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Cover of Monday Mourning

About this book

Monday Mourning (2004), 345 pages, is the seventh entry, following Bare Bones and preceding Cross Bones. It continues Kathy Reichs's practice of grounding every case in real bone science rather than the more stylized forensics of a show like CSI.

Its place in Temperance Brennan

Monday Mourning is book 7 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Bare Bones. It is followed by Cross Bones. 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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