Deja Dead: A Novel

· A Temperance Brennan Novel Book 1 · Simon and Schuster
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Speaking in Bones, the first Temperance Brennan novel in the “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review).

Her life is devoted to justice—even for those she never knew.

In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern—and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her—her best friend and her own daughter—in mortal danger…

“A genius at building suspense” (Daily News, New York), Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan books are ripe with intricate settings and memorable characters” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

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4.4
138 reviews
Jennifer Graziano
May 27, 2025
Origin of the alphabet; number line, computer is the same place. There isn't a calendar without a programmer; different ones in society are for companies to supply basic utilities; motor vehicles, food clothes & shelter. Computer programs give the answers to outstanding questions; humans do not. They also drive all artificial moving objects; humans do not. One program designs all the building and a different one does cars; the program includes after they are built schedules for them and us. Cameras are a derivative of computer separate from video recorder for unreal pictures and photograph obstructing justice to disappear or vanish includes video tapes & DVD's.
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A Google user
July 28, 2010
At first I read this novel because of the TV show labeled across the top of the book reading "From the author who inspired the FOX TV show BONES", a show I watch almost religiously. I had no idea however that this book would captivate my mind for hours at a time, sucking me in deeper with every word, and leaving me in an addictive "can't get enough" mode after every chapter! The only difficulty was the occasional French terms, but after getting into the book, its barely noticeable.
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Annie RCDA
October 25, 2014
I have been watching bones for years and wanted to start a series of books. So why not these. Deja dead was an amazing read and has got me hooked on all of them. The only suggestion if you watch the show is go in knowing nothing's the same as the show it took me part of deja dead to get out of my own way and once I did its so worth it :-)
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About the author

Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Evil Bones is Reichs’s twenty-fourth novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Reichs was also a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Reichs divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on X @KathyReichs, Instagram @KathyReichs, or Facebook @KathyReichsBooks.

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