Monday Mourning

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

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As thrilling and mysterious as the Loch Lomond monster - Rated
Hello,
How are yoo? I'm fine up here in Dunfermline town in the great country of Scotland. I'm cooking a haggis along with some cabbage for breakfast so I'll have to be quick.
This book is quite excellent. It's more thrilling than the Battle of Stirling scene in Braveheart, which says a lot. Or not. Anyhoo, I was really really impressed with the latest instalment in the adventures of Tempe Brennan, who wanders around North America, particularly Montreal, in search of murders and more importantly, the murderers themselves. It may not be exactly in the style of Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, but it has a distinctive style of its own. It's probable closest to Inspector Clousseau in the Pink Panther films.
I must go noo cos my haggis is burning and I have to shut my woman up, too, who's complaining aboot how she's the one having to do all the sheep-herding and the potato-harvesting. Buy the book.
Bye


P.S. Vote for the SNP in the Scottish Parliament elections

Great book man - Rated
Hey,
How are you? We're all fine here in Jamaica, drinking rum and using our new Digicel phones. I do these things too, but I like to read books, especially modern, murder-based thrillers involving forensic anthropologists, so I was enthralled and amazed when I could find all of these features in one book by Kathy Reichs: Monday Mourning.
This is the Holy Grail of murder-mystery book fans. Literally. I might even start up my own cult based on this very book. That would be really cool - having my own religion and taking other people's hard-earned money. I could be like L. Ron Hubbard. Or a bit like Kathy Reichs herself. I'm digressing here - buy this piece of art. It is a book that can be enjoyed by everyone and new meanings can be deciphered from each sentence every time you read it. I've trawled through it no less than 23 times already, each time more intellectually magical and inspiring than the last. Take out that credit card and put your life back on track.
Thanks for your time

One of my finest books - Rated
Hello all,
It's great to see all these fantastic reviews from all over the world, so I decided to join in myself. Even after creating pieces of work like "Bare Bones" and the other ones (I can't remember them right now - there's so many at this stage), this one has to top the list in terms of action, depth and other stuff.
I can't recall what the story is about either, but it involves one of my strongest characters, Temperance Brennan, and it is pretty damn good for something I typed in one overnight session (3hrs 20mins to be exact) with no proof reading - the publishers do that for me. The suspense will have you on the edge of your seat and the ending is completely unpredictable - like all my other books.
Actually, I think I have another idea for a book - I'll start typing it out on my new Hewlett Packard laptop with AMD Athlon processor. I'd say this new one, I'll call it "Twisted Tuesday", should be on shelves all over the globe by next week. I have work to do.
Keep reading my books - thanks

Simply the best - Rated
As I've asserted above, this book is one of the best I've ever read. Seriously, it is a genuinely good read. I'm even thinking of creating a Kathy Reichs meal to combat drops in sales of Happy Meals. Maybe she could even come up with an ingenious title for the meal, modelled on her book names, like "The Murder Meal" only with even better alliteration. I'm only a mere restauranteur extrodinaire with a penchant for creating cholesterol-laden, generic, cardboard-tasting meals that aren't worth their weight in water, but I give this book my backing. The similarities between my meals and her books is uncanny. Seeing as my company has a very high market capitalisation, I'm no pushover when it comes to supporting my friends. Please purchase it.
Thanks

Great (like me) - Rated
Hi,
I heard so many reviews of this book so I decided to travel to the future to buy it and while I'm here, to leave a review myself on this fine website. Btw, the 21st century is fab - I love what you guys are doing. Keep it up.
But back to the book, oh, it was so good, I even temporarily stopped my campaign to crush the Persians under Darius III. It is all about this forensic anthropologist who works half-in-half in Montreal and South Carolina. This tale is set in Montreal only, though. It will blow your mind, it's that flipping good. I put on most of my battle gear just to stop me from screaming out loud at some points in the book, it was that gripping and scary (my corset and armour prevents me from functioning fully, especially in the screaming department.)
I have to go now, I'm afraid. Actually, the way things are going here in Persia, I might even invade India, which would be like, so cool. Those Bollywood chicks - oh yeah.
Keep it real. P.S. Check out "Alexander" the film, starring Colin Farrell - it's a really good depiction of me and my work