Death Du Jour

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Summary: Didn't skip one page of this book!
Review: As a skimmer who can usually finish a book in a few hours, this book was the exception. The plot was well contrived, the characters highly developed and the ending not expected. Superb!

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Summary: Reiches has done it again, as good and better then Desa Dead
Review: WOW, that's all I can say

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Summary: Interesting forensics, but flawed story
Review: I couldn't warm up to the character of Tempe Brennan. Something false about her. There were too many coincidences to make the plot plausible. Connecting the murders she stumbled upon in North Carolina to the murders in Quebec was enough of a stretch, but then throwing her sister into the thick of things was one coincidence too many. The detailed forensics were interesting to an extent, but not interesting enough to make up for the story problems.

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Summary: You want gruesome?
Review: Multiple baby mutilations ruined this book for me. If you're a fan of forensics and don't mind the innocent being victim of psychos, go for it. I was intrigued by the plot, yes, and how she could get it to all hang together, but there were too many cliches: the witness whose call is missed then disappears, etc. Too much, too gory, too unrealistic.

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Summary: Good, but not surpassing Cornwell...
Review: Death du Jour is undoubtedly a good read, however, it takes a good hundred and odd pages to get involved in the story, before it becomes page turning stuff. Tempe Brennan has no where near the stature or likeability that Dr Kay Scarpetta has...and isn't likely too either.

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Summary: Riveting!
Review: Reichs' latest book confirms that she has surpassed Patricia Cornwall in forsenic thrillers. She develops the characters well, but doesn't let them get in the way of the story. A good read.

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Summary: Another top notch page-turner from Reichs
Review: I ordered 'Death du Jour' along with another mystery novel,'Black Notice', and the new WWII thriller, 'The Triumph and the Glory', from Amazon a couple weeks back and all three were great! I think Reichs is rapidly establishing herself as the prime contender to dethrone Cornwell in the genre. I'll have to wait and see how their next books are, but both their new ones get five stars from me.

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Summary: Finish this book!
Review: The reader from Charlotte, NC shortchanged herself by not finishing this book. Her review is inaccurate and misleading. It is her loss that she plans never to read Reichs again. This is a fabulous book, deep in detail and a joy to Montreal-philes, oui!

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Summary: A page-turner with ALOT of details on human putrefaction
Review: I got hooked on the storyline despite the repellant descriptions of decaying bodies and maggots. Kept wondering what the main character, Tempe Brennan, looked like. No description ever given. All the loose ends were tied up at the end, except how Ryan knew about Brennan's mugging. A recommended alternative to Patricia Cromwell's Kay Scarpetta, whose plots and charaterizations are getting weaker and weaker.

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Summary: Dull, flat writing kills the fun
Review: Gore yes, lots of information about autopsies and assorted other matters, rather too-clearly-fictitious characters ... It all adds up to a rather flat, dispiriting formula effort. If you just HAVE to know who's responsible every time you read of a fictitious killing, then you'll get through this, otherwise it becomes rather a drag.