Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
Third in the Temperance Brennan Series
Scribner - June 26, 2001
ISBN: 00684859718 - Paperback / Audio / Large print / eBook
Forensic Mystery - mature theme

Reviewed by Sue Johnson, MyShelf.com
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Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist working in both Montreal, Canada, and Charlotte, North Carolina. When an outlaw biker war breaks out and the lives of innocent bystanders are taken, Tempe begins to take it personally. First, a young girl is caught in the crossfire on a Montreal street. Later, the partial skeleton of a young girl is found near a biker gravesite, and the remainder of her body is discovered in North Carolina.

How did this innocent young girl's bones come to be separated and carried so far apart? As Tempe works the cases, she also has a houseguest in the form of Kit, her young nephew from Texas. To make matters worse, Kit had developed a friendship with a slick television reporter to whom Tempe has taken an instant dislike. This reporter then introduces Kit to the fringes of the outlaw biker culture that Tempe is now in the middle of investigating.

As the suspense and action escalate, Ms. Reichs takes the reader through the sounds and often-gruesome sights of the world of forensic medicine. There is definitely no sugar coating in this book. When I first started reading Ms. Reichs' books, she was often compared to Patricia Cornwell in that their characters and writing styles are similar. I have since read that some readers, myself included are now comparing Patricia Cornwell to Kathy Reichs and with good reason.

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