Death Du Jour

Death Du Joure by Kathy Reichs

"Completely engrossing ... Read this and you'l know why the word

"chil er" was invented' Frances Fyfield, Express

"Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God, how many such days would there be?"

"A gripping read' Daily Mail

"This novel truly deserves the publishing cliche "unquestionable" .. .

The addictive winning formula created by Ms Reichs ... is a believable and likeable central character in forensic expert Dr. Temperance Brennan, a cracking plot, and, natural y, utterly convincing technical details' Ms London

"Reichs's first novel, which won the Arthur El is Award for Best First Novel of 1997, was compared justifiably to the Kay Scarpetta novels of Patricia Cornwel . Soon, Cornwel 's novels may be compared to Reichs's' Publishers Weekly

"This impressive thril er offers an il uminating account of the psychology of cults and their terrifying influences' Good Housekeeping

"A nail-biter, along the lines of Patricia Cornwel , only much better.

Kathy Reichs has perfected the art of the page-turner novel; at the end of every chapter is a hook you can't ignore. You have to keep on reading' Choice

"A gripping read' Daily Mail

"A real gift for the page-turning nail-biter of a thril er' Manchester Evening News

"Compel ing and dramatic ... a thril er of real quality' Yorkshire Evening Post

Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec.

She is one of only 50 forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the board of the 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, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.

Deja Dead, her- first novel, shot straight to number one of the Sunday Times bestsel er list and won the 1997 El is Award for Best First Novel. It became an international bestsel er, as did its successors Death du Jour and Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, the next Kathy Reichs novel featuring Temperance Brennan is published in Arrow paperback in Spring 2002.

Also by Kathy Reichs

Deja Dead

Death du Jour

Deadly Decisions

Fatal Voyage

KATHY REICHS

Death du Jour

Published in the United Kingdom in 2000 by Arrow Books

7 9 10 8 6 Copyright Kathleen J. Reichs 1999

Published by arrangement with the original publisher, Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc.

The right of Kathleen J. Reichs to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988