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Deja Dead Paperback – January 1, 1998

by Kathy Reichs (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 7,145 ratings
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The prize-winning and bestselling debut novel from expert forensic anthropologist and internationally bestselling author, Kathy Reichs
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  1. Book 1 of 23
    Temperance Brennan
  2. Print length
    544 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Arrow Books Ltd
  5. Publication date
    January 1, 1998
  6. Dimensions
    4.33 x 1.26 x 7.01 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0099255189
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0099255185
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Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de Sciences Judiciaires et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty-six forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Antrhopology, and served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr Reichs is a native of Chicago, hwere she received her Ph.D at Northwestern. She divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal, and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arrow Books Ltd (January 1, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099255189
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099255185
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.33 x 1.26 x 7.01 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 7,145 ratings

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Kathy Reichs

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Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times

bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her other Temperance Brennan

books include Death du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones,

Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones, Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, 206 Bones,

Spider Bones, Flash and Bones, Bones Are Forever, Bones of the Lost, Bones Never Lie,

Speaking in Bones, A Conspiracy of Bones, The Bone Code, Cold Cold Bones, The Bone

Hacker and the Temperance Brennan short story collection, The Bone Collection. Fire and

Bones will be released in the Summer of 2024. In addition, Kathy co-authored the Virals young

adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. The best-selling titles are: Virals, Seizure, Code,

Exposure, Terminal, and the novella collection Trace Evidence. The series follows the

adventures of Temperance Brennan’s great niece, Tory Brennan. Dr. Reichs was also a

producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and

identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy

Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For

years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and to the

Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Dr.

Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume

a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she aided in the

identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also

assisted in the recovery of remains at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist

attacks.

Dr. Reichs is one of very few forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of

Forensic Anthropology. She served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology,

and as a member of the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. She is a

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-

Charlotte.

Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now

divides her time between Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Québec.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Deja Dead is a revolutionary novel full of secrets, immense detail, and suspense.
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Deja Dead is a revolutionary novel full of secrets, immense detail, and suspense.
Deja Dead is basically about forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan and what she uncovers and how she does what she does. When Dr. Brennan finds a young woman dismembered and found stashed in trash bags on the side of the road, she investigates and finds a pattern connecting this murder victim to past victims. Dr. Brennan's discovery launches her into a frenzy to find this mass killer and inevitably puts not only who life in danger, but the ones she is closest to. After watching the show based on this series, and then jumping into the book, I have found that I much prefer the show over the book. I imagine the characters looking the way they do in the show, but they are quite different personality wise, especially Temperance. The science content in this book shows very good and well thought out detail in making it as realistic as possible. Tempe's occupation is real and so is most of the stuff described in the novel. I personally liked this book, especially since I want to go into forensic anthropology, but I would recommend reading this book before you go watch them show. They aren't really that similar so if you watch the show, your view on the book and how you read it, may be affected. This novel is one of those books like can be timeless, where anyone at any age could enjoy reading this book.
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Kimberly Nelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Deja Dead
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2024
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I truly enjoyed this book. It's very different from what I normally read. This book had everything, great storyline, which definitely kept me reading.
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Sarah
4.0 out of 5 stars Different from the show, but still a great read
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2017
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I was a little hesitant to read this book after having read some of the reviews on it. There are a couple points from other reviews I'll borrow here.

The book and the TV show are completely different. "Bones" as Det. Booth so affectionately refers to her, is a completely different character to the Temperance Brennan of the books. They are both Dr. Temperance Brennan. They are both forensic anthropologists. That's where all similarities end.

Although a little disappointed because I do love the show- the book isn't worse than the show or better really, they are just different. As another reviewer recommended: separate the two. You won't come away feeling cheated or disappointed. I thought going in, this would be hard to do. I generally like comparing the shows/movies to their written counterparts. Given the total lack of similarities between them, it wasn't at all difficult to think of them separately.

I really enjoyed this book. I will definitely continue with the series. A lot of the science was above my head but fascinating. I love that this particular book was set in Montreal. I felt the author captured the feeling of the city well. There is a lot of repetitive and obvious foreshadowing. Some try to claim this as a twist- I don't think it's a twist or that it's even meant to be viewed that way. It's just a piece of the story you were warned about.

The plot was exciting and kept me turning the page. I kept trying to solve some parts for myself but it was difficult because the author often doesn't give you the whole picture (although thinking back- it could be that I missed the mention of some things. I may go back and re-read). To clarify- I'm not speaking about the "whodunnit" aspect, I'm speaking more to the mysteries within the mysteries, what is the link between the bodies, are St. Jacques and Tanguay the same man, etc.

I liked Tempe of the book. She isn't logical to the point of extreme like Bones, but logical and reasonable in a way that seems both smart and human. She was fiery in the face of adversity, and I enjoyed her revelations at the end about why she was so interested in the case.

I also liked Detective Ryan, who kind of plays hero to Brennan's damsel in distress. Det. Claudel starts out as a minor anti-hero, but wins you over in the end.

I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because some parts do drag. I think I witnessed every meal Brennan ate and could have plotted on a map where she was driving in the city. If the author had done away with them completely it would have made for a tighter, cleaner read, but all in all they didn't bother me much.
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Jen Scheffee Peterson
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written well plotted book
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024
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It is rare to find a police procedural so thoroughly researched, so believable, so well written, so deep. Love this book and can't wait to read more. Thank you Kathy Reichs! And delighted to meet you Tempe. But you really should be armed and better prepared next time ; )
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Troy Blackford
3.0 out of 5 stars Adequate Yet Strangely Unsatisfying
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2014
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This book was entertaining, creepy, and engaging. It also struck me as kind of ridiculous in places and grating throughout.

The mystery was decent. The technical perspective (i.e., seeing the crime procedural from the vantage point of the forensic scientist instead of the detectives) was refreshing. The crimes were macabre and disturbing.

The main problem for me was voice. This is a first-person tale, told from the perspective of 'Temperance Brennan.' I just didn't like her much. As a person, she's cool. Her way of relating information and talking, however, is irritating. At one point (this book is from 1998 and set in 1994, so let that temper your opinion of the following) she describes the process of sending an e-mail to her daughter. Since that was relatively new in 1998 when the book was released and certainly was in 1994 when the story was set, this can be excused.

What can't, however, is the way she does it. After describing the technical aspects of HOW she is able to send the e-mail, she says (and, unfortunately, I quote). "Yahoo! Everyone hop aboard the internet."

Ridiculous asides like this abound. She eats fast food chicken and follows off a description of the meal (the book is FULL of descriptions of EVERY meal) with a KFC reference by saying "Thanks, Colonel." No thanks, Kathy Reichs! I feel like it's meant to give a somewhat stream of consciousness perspective into Brennan's mind, but I guess I just don't like it.

It's not her fault that I wouldn't want to hang out with someone who communicated like this, and I'm sure lots of people would find it funny, but it just gives this overriding tone that has nothing to do with the story or the characters that rubbed me the wrong way.

Also, some of the plot developments are hard to swallow. They find the killer's secret hiding place, with a map on the wall with two Xs where they have already found bodies, and a third X where they haven't looked yet.

"Maybe that's another body!" says intelligent Brennan. "We should look!"

"It's probably nothing," says obstructionist, woman-hating detective man.

That's the end of the police's interest in that third X, and it takes an enterprising Brennan to go out there in the middle of the night on her own to look for the body herself (during which time she is assaulted and knocked unconscious, not killed, and then the fact that someone assaulted her--presumably the killer--is never again referenced in the book aside from a time a little later when she wonders what happened).

Anyway, I still enjoyed this book and will try reading the others but I must say, I wish that the character of Brennan struck me as more likeable in tone. She's just fine in action and behavior. But other than that, it was a fun read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful series
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2023
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This is quite the debut to a wonderful series. This series as well as Kay Scarpetta series shows what people think about women who go into these careers. Many men think these careers should only be for men. I watched Bones and decided this was a series to check out.
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J. S. Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars I’m running to buy the next in the series!!
Reviewed in Canada on January 23, 2022
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This was an amazing storyline and was a complete thriller all the way until the end!! Nice that the author knows Montréal really well and it shows in the story with the various neighborhoods and their essence showing. Also quite detailed was the medical information regarding how investigators use the remains to tell the brutal stories of how the people passed and the age and gender of the victims.

I’m definitely reading the next book in the series and I know I have found my next favourite new author!!
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David Luke
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2023
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Kathy Reichs Deja Dead was absolutely brilliant read, the forensic detail was really good, it was a brilliant page turner.
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Ileana Maya
5.0 out of 5 stars Me gustó mucho, lo leí en tres días.
Reviewed in Mexico on April 15, 2021
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Es importante que si eres fan de la serie televisiva, lo inicies con una mente abierta, ya que los personajes y en general los lugares donde se sitúa son diferentes.
A mi me agradó mucho, es muy descriptiva, lo que lo vuelve más oscura y orientada al crimen y al suspenso, con partes muy tristes o crueles. Después de los primeros capítulos que sirven para presentar a los personajes, me atrapó y no paré hasta terminarla.
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ANA PATRICIA MARTINS
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente!!
Reviewed in Brazil on January 24, 2021
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Boa trama.. primeiro livro abrindo a série Bones com chave de ouro, vale a pena ler este primeiro livro da autora.
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Vafakis Marios Myron
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in Germany on August 5, 2020
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I start reading it
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