Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan #7)

Monday Mourning is Kathy Reichs' seventh Temperance Brennan novel. It is as chillingly good as her first, Deja Dead, a NY Times bestseller which won the 1997 Edgar Award for best first novel. One of the book blurbs for Monday says she is as "good as Cornwell at her best." Wrong. Reichs is consistently better.

Her alter ego and protagonist, Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of North Carolina and for the Laboratoire de Science Judiciaires et Médicine Légale for the province of Quebéc. She is also a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. So is Dr. Reichs. Do not be mislead by her academic pedigree; she is equally adept as a writer.