Deja Dead

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

It's June in Montreal, and Dr. Temperance Brennan, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend in beautiful Quebec City. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. The remains are probably old and only of archeological interest, but Tempe must make sure they're not a case for the police.

One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in the crime lab. Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts; the meticulous dismemberment. As a pattern continues to emerge, Tempe calls upon all her forensic skills, including bone, tooth/dental, and bitemark analysis and x-ray microflourescence to convince the police that the cases are related and to try to stop the killer before he strikes again.

Told with lacerating authenticity and passion, Déjà Dead is both poignant and terrifying as it hurtles toward its breathtaking conclusion and instantly catapults Kathy Reich into the top ranks of crime authors.

©1997 Kathy Reichs (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

Critic reviews

"Accomplished and chilling." ( People)

"Kathy Reichs knows how to put all [of her] exotic experience into a novel....Quebec's own Southern gal give[s] Cornwell a run for the money." (Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail)

"What makes Déjà Dead so compelling, in addition to the authoritative descriptions of how a forensic scientist 'reads' the story the bones tell, is the character of Brennan - smart, persistent, gutsy, ironic yet vulnerable." (Judy Stoffman, Toronto Star)

READ THE REVIEWS

What did you like best about Deja Dead? What did you like least?

I was so excited to try the book series, but in this case the show is a million times better than the book. The narrator is the WORST! Her pauses, spit swallowing - it is all way too much!

What did you like best about this story?

It is a good mystery.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Barbara Rosenblat?

Anyone but Barbara Rosenblat... Listening is disgusting!

Any additional comments?

I am going to try the second book. I pray the dislike of this book is due to the narrator.

Narration Was Brutal

Enjoyed the book, but the narration left something to be desired. It would take a lot for me to listen to her again.

Excellent Book

This book was soooo good! I loved it! This is part of the series of books that the show Bones was based on and while I could definitely see where they pulled ideas and concepts the book was a world of it's own, filled with plenty of orginal content. Reichs did ana amazing job bringing her words to life. I really enjoyed her writing style, espcially her descriptions. The descriptions were vivid without being wordy and i could almost literally see, feel, taste, hear and smell everything she wanted me to. The storyline was gripping, filled with all sorts of twists and surprises, and at points even had my heart pounding. I finished the book satisfied with the conclusion and craving more books by this author.

Very good! A must "hear"!!!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, the story is well written and the reader does an amazing job of making you feel like you are really hearing Tempe's thoughts!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Deja Dead?

The fight scene in the kitchen, I was able to visualize the scene as it was read.

Have you listened to any of Barbara Rosenblat’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes but unfortunately I couldn't

Great book

This story does not follow the show storyline but I love the story and how it’s read.

Great story, not the best recording.

I have hearing issues and have to turn the volume up quite loud. I could hear the narrator swallow every few sentences. Perhaps this recording was done before decent pop filters were available to narrators for their recording set up but it was a little annoying. The story made up for it, thankfully.

Don’t care for narrator

I’m not a fan of this narrator. Voice is heavy, French words are too thick? and difficult to understand. Story line is great.

Would recommend

It had a lot of awesome plot twists. Also, the writer keeps your attention the whole time.

Excellent story, excellent narrator.

I rarely choose a book because of the reader but in the case of Barbara Rosenblat, I sometimes look her name up and see what she is reading and if it is something I am interested in or in the genre that I have an interest I will order it just because she is reading it. I sometimes think that if she read a phone book aloud, she would make it interesting and hold the attention of the audience. Kathy Reichs is a wonderful author. I have only ordered one other book by her because of limited finances but in the future when I have another job, I will be ordering the Temperance Brennan series. Thank you once again, Audible people for a wonderful several days of entertainment.

Avoid at all costs!!

The performance is so awful!! You can hear the woman eating and sucking on mints or ice the whole time. Also it has a constant feedback of hiss and the story doesn’t hold up to time.
TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE