Monday Mourning - Kathy Reichs

Temperance Brennan, lovingly known as Tempe, is a Forensic Anthropologist who splits her time between cold Montreal and warm Charlotte, North Carolina. In early December, she is called to Montreal to testify as an expert in a trial. When she is casually asked to a freezing pizza parlour basement to have a quick look at some human remains, she has little idea that this assignment will take over her life and mind for quite some time. As she discovers that the remains belong to three young girls, she is faced with the mystery of whom they belong to. But life is not made easy for Tempe. Working in a male world, she has to face up to detective Claudel's difficult ...

Monday mourning is the seventh novel featuring Temperance Brennan, a Forensic Anthropologist who works for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciares et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec, Canada. If you haven’t read any of the previous novels featuring the character, please do not dismiss this book solely for that reason. I started my fixation on Reich’s character on the sixth book in the series – Bare Bones, and waited in anticipation for this book. I am now eagerly devouring the other five novels which I have missed. Temperance Brennan is a forty something Forensic Anthropologist who divides her time between Charlotte in North Carolina ...