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)

There just no one better!

Reichs' attention to detail is astounding. just love her books and would highly recommend this and others to anyone loving crime mysteries.

dated and at times slow

The plot and performance are good but there are too many details that set this in a time before even pagers much less cell phones. The internal dialogues can become monotonous and sometimes are way too long.

A bit graphic

The body mutilation is a bit much. Also little things about the narrator irked me, personally. I did finish the book. I’m 50/50 on getting the next one :)

hmmmm

the book was ok. I like the TV series a lot and thought the book would be more like the series.

Awesome!

First time reading/hearing this series and it is awesome I like the way she wrote it, and the words and phrases and culture she put into the book and the detail in the science! must read!

Great story telling - both by author & narrator

Loved the way this was told. The writing was great. Brought character to life as both a professional good at her job, dealing with real world coworker kind of issues, and personal life issues without dwelling too much on any - just enough to make the story fully dimensional. I LOVED the narration. Felt as if the character was actually talking to us - as a real person - not a voice over for television ads. Highly recommend- although be aware there are a few gory details if that’s not your thing.

Absolutely fantastic!!

I love Kathy Reichs books. They are in-depth and detailed, and everyone of them will keep your going to the next one.
Barbara Rosenblat is one of my favorite narrators. She always adds the drama to the stories.

narrator is reading to herself

The story is good. However, the narration sounds like she's reading something she's never seen before, it's distracting, which made it hard to get into the book.

Terrible Narrator

The narrator’s switching between accents is terrible. At one point it seemed that Ryan was Irish. I love these books but this narrator is so bad.

Excellent book, horrific narration

Where does Deja Dead rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is the worst narration possible. Excellent to read but this woman narrator is the worst.

Any additional comments?

Seriously, she belches and sounds like she is chewing gum and gurgling water while reading. I was nauseous listening. Kathy has written an excellent book but you want earplugs to listen to this. I want my money back for this one!