Death Du Jour Author:Kathy Reichs Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter the American-born Dr. Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elizabeth Nicolet dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, hold... more »s the first clue to the cloisered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elizabethe's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an engmatic and controversal professor, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island. Featuring the kind of forensic detail that only Kathy Reichs can provide - from skeletal reconstruction to insect analysis - Death Du Jour takes the listener on a riveting journey from the morgue to the lab to the crime scene, from the warmth of a barrier island to the frigid cold of a deadly ice storm. With this poignant and powerful work, Kathy Reichs confirms her status as a brilliant new crime-writting star. Read by Katherine Borowitz.« less