- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd; First printing edition (14 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0434010383
- ISBN-13: 978-0434010387
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 422,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In Monday Mourning Tempe Brennan finds the bones of three dead adolescents in a basement and she has to convince her police colleagues that they are recent enough that the case should be investigated. The book has all the technical know-how, crisply explained, that we expect from Kathy Reichs; readers find themselves peering over Tempe's shoulder as she works out, not only the solution to a puzzle, but how to begin to solve it.
Reichs is a practising forensic archaeologist in real life--but she never forgets that her readers cannot be expected to know everything she does. For a genuine expert though, she is remarkably unpatronising to our ignorance--one of the reasons why Tempe has so many colleagues who know comparatively little is so that her explanations can instruct us while we watch prickly Tempe tread on colleagues' toes. Like all of Reichs' books, Monday Mourning has a pronounced sense of place--Montreal in the snow has rarely seemed so real. If there is a downside to this clever police procedural, it is that we get rather too much of Tempe's fairly conventional emotional life--apparent problems with her lover Ryan end up in quite the corniest of explanations for apparent individuality, while her concern for an apparently suicidal friend adds artificial suspense to a plot that was doing the whole thing quite well in the first place. --Roz Kaveney
Independent on Sunday
‘Reichs always delivers’
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I've just started to read Kathy Reichs books and I'm a convert.
I'm reading them in the wrong order and I saw that this was the 7th Temperance Brennan novel but it hasn't spolied my enjoyment.
I got bored with Patricia Cornwall, as she has too many agendas outside her main Characters, plus the last book I read of hers nearly sent me to sleep until I got past page 75 and then I wish I hadn't bothered.
I like Kathy Reichs for a number of reasons which were personified in the book.
She's an intelligent but vulnerable woman. She is witty but at the same time feisty. She relfects some of the challenges of a single parent with an element of Brigette Jones Diaries about her love life especially Andrew Ryan.
But above all she is smart.
The book itself is full of twists and turns - some of them seem irrelevant but I won't refer to these speciafically as it might spoil the enjoyment of others.
From the start she is up against a cyncial and chauvansitic homicidal cop in Luc Claudel whose aim in life , in this case, is to dismiss the case as of no interest and a waste of resources.
It starts when a plumber in Montreal finds bones in the basement under a pizzeria, and Tempe is called in to investigate.
What happens is three bodies (bones more like) are discovered in the basement.
To confound the issue a few buttons are found in the basement which an expert dates to the 1890's.
Detective Luc Claudel assumes the buttons and the bodies are connected and refuses to investigate old deaths. Upon examining the bodies, Tempe determines all three are young girls who died post 1900.
The story then moves in several directions but centrally Tempe nneds to prove that the bones are not the result of an occurence which occurred over 100 years ago and be of no interest to Luc Claudel.
Kathy Reichs does dumb down some of the technical issues (thankfully) around proving (or disproving) how old the bones are including the use carbon 14 isotope analysis.
Then investigation also examines the past owners/tennants of the property which unearths (pardon the pun) some red herrings!
The book maintains a terrific pace and the denouement is excellently crafted.
It loses a star for me as there is some meandering and a bit of padding but overall I would highly recommend this to anyone intersted in this genre.
Next up Deja Dead!!
I'm reading them in the wrong order and I saw that this was the 7th Temperance Brennan novel but it hasn't spolied my enjoyment.
I got bored with Patricia Cornwall, as she has too many agendas outside her main Characters, plus the last book I read of hers nearly sent me to sleep until I got past page 75 and then I wish I hadn't bothered.
I like Kathy Reichs for a number of reasons which were personified in the book.
She's an intelligent but vulnerable woman. She is witty but at the same time feisty. She relfects some of the challenges of a single parent with an element of Brigette Jones Diaries about her love life especially Andrew Ryan.
But above all she is smart.
The book itself is full of twists and turns - some of them seem irrelevant but I won't refer to these speciafically as it might spoil the enjoyment of others.
From the start she is up against a cyncial and chauvansitic homicidal cop in Luc Claudel whose aim in life , in this case, is to dismiss the case as of no interest and a waste of resources.
It starts when a plumber in Montreal finds bones in the basement under a pizzeria, and Tempe is called in to investigate.
What happens is three bodies (bones more like) are discovered in the basement.
To confound the issue a few buttons are found in the basement which an expert dates to the 1890's.
Detective Luc Claudel assumes the buttons and the bodies are connected and refuses to investigate old deaths. Upon examining the bodies, Tempe determines all three are young girls who died post 1900.
The story then moves in several directions but centrally Tempe nneds to prove that the bones are not the result of an occurence which occurred over 100 years ago and be of no interest to Luc Claudel.
Kathy Reichs does dumb down some of the technical issues (thankfully) around proving (or disproving) how old the bones are including the use carbon 14 isotope analysis.
Then investigation also examines the past owners/tennants of the property which unearths (pardon the pun) some red herrings!
The book maintains a terrific pace and the denouement is excellently crafted.
It loses a star for me as there is some meandering and a bit of padding but overall I would highly recommend this to anyone intersted in this genre.
Next up Deja Dead!!
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After lazing around the American South for a couple of books, this one finds Tempe back in Montreal. The book starts well, with Tempe involved in a case almost from the first page. There follows an irritating section when she is giving evidence and has to prove her credentials as an expert witness. I suspect Reichs felt it was time to remind readers exactly what Tempe is and how she qualified to do her job: this section has no real connection with the remainder of the book.
The action is swift and smooth. Tempe's continual on/off relationship with her Canadian police officer continues, but not quite as obtrusively as in recent books.
Inevitably, our heroine gets too closely involved with her case and finds herself in personal danger. Reichs must be close to running out of plausible reasons why a forensic anthropologist keeps getting beaten/kidnapped/threatened with a violent end.
I carp. This is a good read, which moves Tempe Brennan along and provides much excitement on the way.
Recommended.
The action is swift and smooth. Tempe's continual on/off relationship with her Canadian police officer continues, but not quite as obtrusively as in recent books.
Inevitably, our heroine gets too closely involved with her case and finds herself in personal danger. Reichs must be close to running out of plausible reasons why a forensic anthropologist keeps getting beaten/kidnapped/threatened with a violent end.
I carp. This is a good read, which moves Tempe Brennan along and provides much excitement on the way.
Recommended.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I admit that I have struggled with Kathy Reichs in the past. I know others have rated her highly and compared her to Patricia Cornwell, but I failed to see any comparison.
Reichs' failings, I felt, lay in her plotting and dialogue. Her characters always seemed very one-dimensional and uninviting, even though she had come up with some promising storylines. Reichs' previous efforts have, to me at least, been very artificial and amateur, clunky and awkward.
However, with Monday Mourning Reichs has transformed herself. Her characters suddenly have depth and believability; better, their dialogue has become life-like as the author has discovered (or uncovered) her ability to write funny, sardonic, sarcastic and sometimes ironic lines for her characters to deliver. Suddenly, I found that I laughed out loud at odd points when reading. Not real belly laughs as you get with Tom Sharrpe, but nonetheless some very witty moments to be enjoyed.
The plot is good. It is almost beleivable (I'm still not totally convinced about forensic anthropologists being called in so early in investigations) and we can see why the heroine, Brennan, has been involved. We see her struggle with the sheer evil that confronts her in this book. Indeed, the evil that is the main story in the book will take your breath away when it's uncovered.
So, all in all, a much improved writer showing some real skill at last.
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