Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan Series #7)

Gripping and fascinating.

You can't help being pulled in. Fabulous read.

Great read

Great plot with a compelling story arch. Tthere were well placed hints that kept you hooked but the ending has a great twist. Enjoy this one

If you like Fox's 'Bones', you'll love the original Temperance Brennan!

I recommend starting with Deja DeAd and reading right on through! You won't regret ot!

Two thumbs up

Very good and easy read that keeps yiur attention. At one point I was more interested in the Tempe / Ryan storyline that I almost read the end.

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it is an interesting story, but what the heck! it is so cruel what people do to each other! power to the people ! peace , Love!

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Stop reading the series before you get to this book!

I REALLY wanted to love this series. I am a huge fan of Bones and I was hoping that the books would have the same feel. NOPE. The author is way too formulaic- every book has the same pattern. Each time a friend or family member shows up and manages to get entangled in the case. Come on! It was fine the first and second time but, by the third book, it grows tiresome. Yet, I continued to purchase the books, hoping that the author would mature and develop better plots. It didn't happen. Additionally, her relationship with Ryan is unrealistic, childish and almost insulting to adult women. My last gripe is that I am not familiar with French so, it grows tiresome to stumble over all of the French in her books. Heed my advice, you are better off watching reruns of Bones.

Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan Series #7) Review

This book was very good from the very beginning. It was exciting but it had a sense of realism in there since this book was actually based on a real case that Kathy Reichs had but never solved. It was a good read and I will probably read it again. I recommend this book to someone who likes murder and mystery or even just the CSI TV show!

Wow

This book was so amazing! It really sickened me to think that people actually do this kind of thing. I think this is the main reason why I want to become a forensic anthropologist.

AAAAA....stop killing my brain!!

This is a GREAT book. Reichs has an amusing sadistic way of messing with your head at the last minute and bringing the whole book together with a grand conclusion. Since I teach science, all of the forensic stuff is cool.

Another superb novel

I have thoroughly enjoyed the writings of Kathy Reichs and her character, Tempe Brennan. Until I read ¿Monday Mourning¿ I didn¿t know why I thought the writing was superb. Ms. Reichs does an afterword and from this I learned that she is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. When you write about what you know, you write the best. Monday Mourning continues with the characters of Tempe, her cat, Birdie, Detective Andrew Ryan and Detective Claudel. ¿Monday Mourning¿ finds Tempe in the basement of a pizza parlor in Montreal with bones and¿RATS! Detective Claudel believes the bones are from a long ago burial but Tempe doesn¿t believe this at all. In the midst of delving into the forensics of the bones with Carbon 14 dating, Tempe¿s friend, Ann, shows up on her doorstep. She is in crisis and leans on Tempe for an ear to bend about her troubles. When Tempe brings Ann to her apartment, they find it has been burglarized. Detective Andrew Ryan arrives just as the girls are trying to decide whether or not to enter the apartment. After the police have been called, he helps the girls clean up enough to be able to sleep safely in the apartment. Between the bones, Claudel giving Tempe a hard time about why she is so concerned with them, Ryan being secretive about the girl living with him and Ann¿s problems with her husband, Tempe is about to lose her mind. Investigation discovers a connection between runaways and Stephen Manard from Vermont. The Carbon 14 shows where the victims had lived but searching police files leads no where. The police locate a home owned by Manard in Montreal and from this point, the story takes a twist I didn¿t see coming. Does Ryan love Tempe? Is the man the police talked to really Manard? Is the girl living with Manard his wife or captive? Who are the victims found in the basement? Grab a copy of ¿Monday Mourning¿ and don¿t stop listening until the very end.

Okay, but not great

This book was good...but not on 'my' Best Seller List. A little too much detail for my taste.

Fantastic and Smart Science

This was Kathy's best book yet. Loved them all and a bit sad now that I have to sit and wait while she writes another one. I HOPE!!! Kathy's books take on the CSI shows to a higher level and I can't get enough of the science. Smart Lady writes smart books.

Enjoyed the book

I just finished this book and enjoyed the story and learning more about Tempe. I have read all of Tempe Brennen series and really enjoy her character with her determination. The technical details are sometimes overwhelming in this novel. However certainly relevant to the story and to Tempe's once again determination to help.

Just ok

I finished this book with a struggle. The last third of the book was good but I found there was too much detail and was confused by all the forensic/coroner/scientific talk. I just found it hard to follow. The ending was better but still just an ok read.

Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan Series #7)

I couldn't even finish this book. It seems as if most of the people here enjoyed it, which I don't understand at all. I knew what was going to happen early on, and I found myself not caring at all about the characters. This is my first novel by this author and definitely my last.

Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan Series #7)

I've never liked Kathy Reichs, but I decided to give this book a try. She's not a particularly talented writer, which is the problem with lots of these people who are in law enforcement/medicine/forensics and attempt a writing career: the expertise and accuracy is there, but the talent isn't. This book was an improvement over Déja Dead, but not by much. It seems as if Reichs tries too hard to model herself after Patricia Cornwell, and falls flat. Tempe Brennan is no Kay Scarpetta, that's for sure.

Bada bim bada boom

The word ``mourning'' in the title implies quiet reflection, silence. In fact the book starts with a rat-a-tat pace that never lets up. One sentence paragraphs. Snap snap snap. And the general narrative quite impressionistic, so the readers gets a sense of things instead of loaded down with contextual passages. This is a great book for the airplane.

Couldn't put the book down!

Once you read the first few pages, you are quickly taken into the streets of Quebec. Tempe is back investing the deaths of lost children that the police are convinced are from a past century. New technology helps her prove to the police that the deaths are more recent. The book holds two new twists: Ryan has a daughter and things are heating up between Tempe and Ryan. Can't wait to see what happens in the next book.

Monday Mourning

I have just finished Monday Mourning and enjoyed this book very much.When you have the same people from previous books you more or less knw how they will react.I recommend this book highly.