The release date for the English version of 'Monday Mourning' by
Kathy Reichs is Jun 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In this captivating new novel, internationally recognized forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs delves into the psychology of a hostage yielding to the ideology of their captor, a phenomenon known as the Stockholm syndrome.
During the dark days of December, Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, travels from Charlotte to Montreal to provide an expert witness statement in a murder trial.
Instead of reviewing her notes, she's rummaging in the pizza parlor's basement. Bad fun. quite chilly. slithering rats. And these three young women's skeletonized remains. What was their route there? When were they killed?
Tempe's former admirer turned homicide investigator Luc Claudel thinks the bones are important historical artifacts. nor his problem, nor his situation. The proprietor of the pizza business discovered buttons from the nineteenth century in the crypt containing the remains. Claudel interprets them as a sign of the age of the bones.
However, something is illogical. Tempe uses Carbon-14 to determine the approximate age of the bones in her study. Additional examination of the tooth enamel reveals the women's birthplace. If she is correct, Claudel has been involved in three killings lately. Unquestionably his case.
Meanwhile, Detective Andrew Ryan is behaving strangely. Just as Tempe starts to think he could be a permanent part of her life, he vanishes without explanation. What are those secret phone conversations he makes in the other room? More lonely evenings ahead for Tempe and her cat, Birdie.
Tempe becomes entangled in a web of wickedness from which she could never escape as she looks for solutions in both her personal and professional life. Women have vanished, never to be seen again...Tempe might be next.
Monday Mourning, the next book by the incredibly talented megastar who is, in the words of New York Newsday, "the real thing," is the finest yet with its potent blend of modern forensic science and suspenseful, nail-biting writing.