Monday mourning

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Kathy Reichs: Monday mourning (2004, Scribner)

449 pages

English language

Published Sept. 29, 2004 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-0-7432-6264-4
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4 stars (7 reviews)

Monday Mourning is the seventh novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. Kathy Reichs herself is a forensic anthropologist who works for 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.

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4 stars

Ms. Reichs novels read quite quickly and easily. I just need to remember I cannot start the novels when eating -- which is a problem because I tend to have most of my reading time over meals.

Reichs does use her novels to explain science, a quirk that I enjoy. I skip the stuff I know (I teach Carbon-14 dating to my students so I don't need to read her description). But the stuff I don't know is interesting to me. I hope it inspires more interest in science for the general public.

I enjoyed this novel. I don't know that I enjoyed it especially more or less than any others so far. A bit of the book did seem like the murder mystery bit was more of a side-plot to the Ryan/Brennan romance novel. I do read romance novels for a brain-less read every so often. My brain does …

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  • Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Women forensic anthropologists -- Fiction.
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