Deadly Decisions

Reichs, Kathy

ISBN 10: 1856866939 ISBN 13: 9781856866934

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks, 2000

Synopsis

Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the state of Quebec, is abruptly recalled from a course she is teaching at Quanitco for a gruesome duty. A biker war is raging in Quebec and two of its foot soldiers have blown themselves up. The only person qualified to make sense of what remains is Tempe. Like many in the region, she cares little what les motards - the bikers - do to each other. Until the body of a nine-year-old girl is wheeled into the morgue, slain by biker crossfire. Fired with anger and a sense of injustice, Tempe vows to lend her skills to fight the outlaw motorcycle clubs. When an exhumation brings to light another tragic death, her resolve is heightened. But the bikers are dangerous people to cross. Unable to turn to her sparring partner Andrew Ryan for help, Tempe finds herself vulnerable as events escalate

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Review

Kathy Reichs' forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is arguably the best of the current crop of thriller pathologists--quiet in her desire to avenge the helpless and coldly clinical in her intelligence. Her third outing, Deadly Decisions, pits her reconstructive skills against a bunch of Hell's Angels with a taste for ultra-violence. She pieces together the jigsaw fragments of identical twins and she finds herself engaged in identifying the teenage girl whose skull and long bones turned up near the grave of some earlier victims of inter-gang strife. In addition to the usual fascinating material about the identification of human bones, Reichs tells us all about the way that biker gangs have become a serious part of the criminal underworld, a subculture with a taste for mayhem and with rules it is death to break. This tactful abridgement for audio includes all the details one could wish of Tempe's gruesome trade, but not at the expense of her bad hair days, her irritating nephew and the rest of her messy private life. Katherine Borowitz's quiet characterisation brings us close to the cool intense delicacy of Reichs's character, without ever quite becoming so quiet as to be monotonous. --Running time approx 5 hours --Roz Kaveney

Review

"A high-octane forensic thriller."

-- "People"

"A high-octane forensic thriller."

-- "People"

"The forensic details are fascinating."

-- "The Orlando Sentinel" (FL)

Anne Rivers Siddons If there is anyone as good at the forensic thriller, I don't know who it is. Kathy Reichs's science is cold and elegant, and her characters are warm and complex. The result is irresistible.

"A high-octane forensic thriller." -- "People"
"The forensic details are fascinating." -- "The Orlando Sentinel" (FL)

"A high-octane forensic thriller." -- "People"

"Reminiscent of Patricia Cornwell at the top of her game. . . . Moves along like a Harley-Davidson leading the pack." -- The San Francisco Examiner

"The forensic details are fascinating." -- The Orlando Sentinel (FL)

"A high-octane forensic thriller." -- People

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1856866939
• ISBN 13: 9781856866934
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• Number of pages: 360