Dead men do tell tales.... (Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs)

Member Name: maggs1939

Product:	Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs
Date:	29/05/01 (23 review reads)
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Advantages: Engrossing pllot, completely believable heroine and lots of interesting forensic information

Disadvantages: Since the action is set in Quebec, there are often french phrases which will be unfamiliar to those of us who don't speak french

Kathy Reichs is a powerful writer and Deadly Decisions, her third novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan, is possibly the best to date.

Tempe starts off by examining the remains of people who have been long dead but she always ends up investigating the manner of their demise. Needless to say, none of her "patients" have died from normal causes.

I feel that Kathy Reichs is writing about herself, particularly with regard to her job. Like her character Dr Tempe Brannan, Reichs is a forensic anthropologist dividing her time between the Chief Medical Departments in the State of North Carolina and the province of Quebec. No wonder then that she can give such marvellous insights into the world of forensics.

In this novel Tempe gets caught up with a biker gang and the resulting investigation takes the reader into another world where a wrong word can lead to a violent and often deadly confrontation.

Slow to get going but after a couple of chapters I don't think you will be able to put this book down. It is quite completely engrossing.

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