Deadly Decisions: (Temperance Brennan 3) by Kathy Reichs (MOBI)

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The third gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class. Soon afterwards, the body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away.

Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan knows she must stay professional, but when the young girl’s body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot help but react.

And when an exhumation reveals the bones of yet another innocent in a hidden grave close to a biker gang headquarters, Tempe begins a lone and risky investigation into the lawless underworld of organised crime.

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Amazon.com Review Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist with one of the longest commutes in fiction–from North Carolina to Montreal. She works in both places, and in this third outing (after Déjà Dead and Death du Jour) she manages to make a riveting (if a bit too coincidental) connection between a skull in Montreal and the partial skeleton of a teenager–dead since 1984–in North Carolina. Linking them is a 9-year-old girl shot on a Montreal street, the victim of a war among members of an outlaw motorcycle gang in eastern Canada. Another piece of the puzzle is provided by Tempe’s visiting nephew, who is fascinated by the biker culture and is drawn into the mystery Tempe’s trying to solve: “Know anything about Slick?” asked Kit. “He doesn’t look like the pick of the litter.” “Yeah, even from that motley litter.” He flipped the picture. “Heck, this guy croaked when I was 3 years old.” There were two more photos of Slick’s funeral, both taken from a distance, one at the cemetery, the other on the church steps. Many of the mourners wore caps riding their eyebrows, and bandannas stretched to cover their mouths. “The one you’ve got must be from a private collection.” I handed Kit the other pictures. “I think these two are police surveillance photos. Seems the bereaved weren’t anxious to show their faces.” The science is as accurate as the author can make it. Kathy Reichs’s own background–as forensic anthropologist for the chief medical officer of North Carolina and director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec–ensures verisimilitude of place and procedure and creates a believable milieu. Fans of Patricia Cornwall will enjoy this solidly written suspense thriller, while those of a less scientific bent, who don’t mind a somewhat lagging pace, will skip the details and concentrate on Reichs’s fluid writing. All readers will enjoy the way Tempe puts the pieces of the puzzle, as well as the bodies, together. –Jane Adams –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From AudioFile Abridging Reichs’s complex books, rich in detail, would seem to be a daunting task. It has nevertheless been accomplished here (by George Truett), retaining the book’s story, spirit, and impact. Katherine Borowitz’s precise and evocative narration complements Tempe Brennan’s latest, a foray into the world of biker groups, violent death, and dealing with a sometimes difficult nephew as a houseguest in her home in Quebec. Borowitz’s reading of French phrases is perfectly voiced, and she makes real a range of complex characters–from outlaw bikers to French-Canadian police. As Tempe works to identify the skeleton of a young girl and find out who is apparently threatening her, Borowitz crafts a flawless performance that brings the listener totally into Tempe’s life. M.A.M. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From Publishers Weekly Critics (and publicists) often compare Reichs to Patricia Cornwell, as both are women who write bestselling thrillers featuring a female forensic expert. There’s a significant difference between them, though. Reichs brings to her grisly novels a scientific detail and authenticity that Cornwell rarely matchesAa virtue arising from Reich’s background as a top forensic anthropologist for the governments of North Carolina and Quebec, a background mirrored by that of her heroine, Tempe Brennan. But CornwellAa journalist before she turned novelistAis a more accomplished writer than Reichs, and her more fluid prose and plotting support a heroine who exudes a vitality that Brennan doesn’t. Reichs’s strengths and weaknesses are apparent in this third novel (after Death du Jour) featuring narrator Brennan, which finds the crime fighter tangling with outlaw motorcycle gangs in Montreal. The novel opens as Brennan, “sorting badly mangled tissue” in an autopsy room, is interrupted by the arrival of another body: that of a girl, nine, caught by a bullet that one gang, the Heathens, had intended for a rival Viper. The mangled tissue belongs to two Heathens who’d been en route to bomb the Vipers’ headquarters: war is raging among bikers in Montreal, and Brennan is soon caught in the battles, not least because her visiting nephew, Kit, is enamored with bikersAincluding some involved in the war. The narrative carries Brennan to assorted bikers’ hangouts, and to much forensic digging, all of which Reichs handles with an admirable intensity and veracity. Still, the novel has a stiff, storyboarded feel, with a subplot involving Brennan’s cop loverAhas he turned gang member?Aparticularly intrusive. The pacing is lopsided, laborious in front and action-stuffed at the back, and the narrative spreads its message about the malfeasance of outlaw bikers with a heavy hand. Overall, the novel works, but the gears show one time too many. Agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at the Writer’s Shop. Major ad/promo; 6-city author tour. (July) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Review Anne Rivers Siddons If there is anyone as good at the forensic thriller, I don’t know who it is. Kathy Reichs’s science is cold and elegant, and her characters are warm and complex. The result is irresistible. — Review –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From Kirkus Reviews Beautiful, cosmopolitan Montréal has the distinction of hosting the last active biker war in North America. Consulting forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, brought up once more from North Carolina to help separate the bodies of a pair of identical twin Heathens blown up by their own bomb, is on hand when a Viper informant leads the Sûreté to a field where two much older bodies are buried–together with the skull and leg bones of Savannah Osprey, a hydrocephalic teen who disappeared from North Carolina in 1984, and whose body has long since been laid to rest back home. What are her missing parts doing in Pointe-St-Charles, and how is she connected to the slain bikers? As Tempe (Death du Jour, 1999, etc.) applies her customary expertise to these problems, problems are piling up on the home front as well. Her main squeeze, Lt. Andrew Ryan, has been arrested for dealing drugs, and her visiting nephew, Kit Howard, is infatuated with two equally unsuitable role models: the bikers whose equipment he’s fascinated by, and Lyle Crease, the smarmy newscaster who’s using him to get to Tempe. By the end, the body count has risen so high that it scarcely registers–replaced by forensic examinations of body parts, blood spatters, and old photos as centers of dramatic interest–and the mystery itself (whodunit, when, how, and why?) is shapeless in all but its broadest contours. Still, fans will be hooked by those ghoulish stints in the lab, the penny-dreadful chapter endings, and the endless flow of acronyms that prove what a tough cookie Tempe is. (Author tour) — Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From Library Journal Crime writer Reichs is amazing! Once again, readers will be eager to learn the grisly details of how her forensic anthropologist heroine, Dr. Tempe Brennan, teases information from the bones of mutilated, decomposed, often animal-gnawed human bodies. Here, Tempe is outraged at the death of a child in a war among bikers vying for the Quebec province drug trade, and she joins the investigation. Tension mounts as she becomes embroiled in the rivalries of outlaw motorcycle gangs, “the mafia of the new millennium.” The case becomes more complex as another biker is killed and the death and dismemberment of a teenage girl years before in North Carolina are linked to the Quebec biker mayhem. Then Tempe’s Harley-riding nephew from Houston gets involved, revving up the plot as the tale speeds across the finish line to a satisfying conclusion. The author of the best-selling D j Dead, Reichs roots her skillful storytelling in her own experience as forensic anthropologist in both Montreal and North Carolina. Highly recommended for all public library fiction collections.-DMolly Gorman, San Marino, CA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From School Library Journal Adult/High School-Tempe Brennan becomes involved when two motorcycle gangs declare war, plot revenge, and leave an innocent child caught in the crossfire. Tempe sorts out new and old murders, ties together clues in Montreal and North Carolina, and worries that her visiting nephew is becoming involved with the gangs. Competent young adult readers will enjoy the information on motorcycles and will relate to the nephew. However, there are many characters, victims, and police organizations to keep straight. Reichs explains the latter in context, but then refers to them with abbreviations. Abounding in grisly details, this novel is sure to please Reichs’s fans.-Claudia Moore, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VACopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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⭐ Kathy Reichs created in Dr. Tempe Brennan a character who has been wildly successful in book and TV formats. Deadly Decision, an early book in the series, displays all the character development and plot twists we expect from a ReichsBrennan outing. Although this one starts with Tempe in Charlotte, it is set in Montreal. Her nephew Kit, son of her little sister Harry, is staying with his aunt during this book’s length. He becomes infatuated with the motorcycle gang culture which is in open warfare in Montreal. This personal and professional problems overlap and decisions which may turn deadly indeed may place 19 year old Kit in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tempe’s boyfriend Ryan is under investigation by the very cops he works for so he is out of pocket for a large portion of this book. But even with out the blue-eyed hunk, Reichs keeps the action non-stop and the surprises lying around each plot turn.

⭐ This book is about biker gangs and had a lot, LOT, of technical and historical info that I actually skipped through. I skipped through the whole book… it just couldn’t hold my interest. And the personal ties to the biker investigation felt very unlikely and made up. I can’t wait to get to another book so I can forget this one. I absolutely love the other 6 books I’ve read by her so it was just a bad year for her I guess.

⭐ Wanted to give Kathy Reichs a try since my favorite TV series is based on her ideas. I found it disconcerting to have several French phrases appear without any explanation of them or for them. With so many characters periodically showing up I had to review who they were and their role in the book. I’m willing to try another one in the series.

⭐ I have been a fan of Kathy Riechs long before the Show Bones came out and I have really enjoyed the show as well. This is one of the early books I missed when I started reading her stuff and I finally got around to reading it. I guess it is a good thing it took me a long time to get around to reading this because this was boring. It was not a typical Reichs novel, and there was very little forensic anthropology in it. I really enjoy the technical aspects of finding clues in the bones to tell the story of the dead and it was defiantly lacking in this book. It was almost a chore to get through this and I am a big fan of her other books. Now it has been a long time since I last read one of her books so I am hoping this was just a slow one and I haven’t grown out of her work.The other thing that I seemed to miss was the relationship between her main Character Tempe Brennan and Andrew Ryan. It seems in all of the books I have read there is that on again off again relationship that helps add humor and help the down times move along. There was none of that in this book. Andrew Ryan is a suspect in a crime and he sequesters himself cutting off all ties while he is under suspicion. He then shows up near the end and it just felt like she forgot about the character and needed to push him back in so we the reader didn’t forget about him.Not my favorite by her and I have read it I can move on to something else.

⭐ As I have mentioned in other reviews, I am reading the Tempe Brennan novels from beginning to end, in order. I am sensing a formulaic approach that is becoming annoying. In the first few chapters we meet “the friend” who, due to wild coincedence happens to be directly linked to the theme of the book (Book 1 – Best friend studying prostitution, theme sexual sadist murdering prostitutes; Book 2 – Sister involved with a “self-improvement” group, theme cult mentality/behavior; This book – Nephew who is obsessed with motorcycles, theme biker wars). In each case the “friend” becomes imperiled and Tempe has to rush to their rescue – only to find herself in equal peril.Again, coincedences abound (although not as abusively as in “Death du Jour”), and there is a “human interest” mystery, not directly linked to the main story line, introduced in the early chapters and not resolved until the end. Most of the cast of Montreal police from previous novels are back, and Detective Andy Ryan (Tempe’s love/hate interest) is also back, in an unexpected way. And it still confuses me as to how someone as clearly brilliant as Dr. Brennan is can do so many really stupid things – but she does.There are some positive notes, however. The plot is relatively streamlined, and generally moves at a good pace, and a few eye-rolling coincedences aside, I literally could not put it down for the last third of the book. The book is ovbiously well researched, and I can say that I now know more about outlaw biker clubs than I ever thought I would.So, do I recommend this book? Yes – especially if you plan on continuing with the series. Having just finished book 4 (“Deadly Voyage”), I will say that there are some themes and plot elements in this book that carry through into the next.

⭐ Maybe the thing I liked best about this book was the way, Temperance Brennan, the lead character, discovers that she may have been wrong about the way she was judging people and was able to admit it. Especially Quickwater and Claudel. The bulk of the story took place in Quebec so some of the French names were kind of annoying while I was trying to read. Why can’t they have names like Buck or Hank? Also La Rue de whatever. What’s wrong with a name like Maple Street? Anyway, there is a lot going on in this novel and at times I was confused by all the characters and how they were involved with each other. By the end, I guess I had it pretty well sorted out, but this is one book that I wish I had started taking notes about who the characters were as they appeared. This is the second novel by Kathy Reichs that I have completed, and again I’m saying that this one earned 4 stars. Very enjoyable with very believable characters. The plot with Kit and the Crease was kind of a stretch and the whole final resolution was also a bit hard to conceive, but Reichs does bring it all together and manages to tie up the loose ends. Well, most of them. The convenience of Andrew Ryan bothered me as he just happened to be in the right place at the right time twice, but hey, it’s fiction not reality. Then there was the scene in the biker bar. For a heroine as smart as Temperance Brennan, that was one brain fade moment when she decided to go there. Cool scene though. The bottom line is that this is an enjoyable book with a good plot and one that will not disapoint the reader looking for a nice mystery/thriller.

⭐ I enjoyed Kathy Reichs first Tempe Brennan books Deja Dead and Death Du Jour. Tempe Brennan was a welcome change from Kay Scarpetta, a strong, well written character and warmer character, with lots of potential for growth in character and her relationships. Unfortunately that doesn’t happen here. Although the forensics were interesting, there were long boring sections of lectures masquerading as conversations, particularly the 9 pages of blood splatter theory. This is a bit of overkill for the average reader like myself. I also found the motorcycle gang storyline quite confusing with names thrown out and no characters to attach them to. Tempe’s character appears to be changing too. She makes one incredibly stupid decision to go to a biker bar in the middle of the night, that served as nothing more than a way to bring a character who had been absent throughout most of the book back into the storyline however briefly. And the identity of the person in her office who may be an informant is so blatant and obvious, when she finally catches on, you wonder what took her so long. Brennan is also beginning to whine a bit, in the Scarpetta mode, with everyone she works with seeming to be against her or unwilling to work with her. It is also very strange that everyone in her family seems to draw crime to them like a magnet. One of the most boring parts of the book were conversations between characters that were word for word restatments of information already relayed to the reader. Here’s hoping that Fatal Voyage is better, since I had already purchased it, or the title may become a self fulfilling prophecy for me and Tempe Brennan.

⭐ I have decided to start from the beginning and buy and read all of Kathy Reichs books. At first I was shocked how different her books were from the TV series based on her books. But, go figure, that’s TV! Ms. Reichs writes a good book, tells a good story and keeps me into it from the start. I love a good mystery. That her Dr. Brennen isn’t a marshal arts master, or living in a world without social connection, doesn’t take away from her personality. I’m still working on the other characters in her books. They have their own contribution, but I’m still learning who they are. Thank God Kathy has written a number of books. I’ll get to know more of her characters as they develop in the future I’m sure. It’s a great adventure and I recommend everyone follow my example.

⭐ The brilliance & courage of Temperance Brennan is amazing. Striving to solve murders, nail the illegal bike gangs, keeping her nephew Kit safe, her hands are full in this novel. Lots of suspense & well-written.

⭐ This book takes place in Canada and the law enforcement agencies there. This book is exciting, original, with lots of twists. Didn’t want to put it down once I got started. Kept me going the whole time.

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