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Déjà Dead

A Novel

By Kathy Reichs

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| Hardcover | 9780684841175

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Book Description

Reichs' stunning debut thriller draws on her experience as a forensic anthropologist in North Carolina and Montreal, but it has considerably more going for it than the mere stamp of authenticity. The devil is in the details, and it is the small betraying details--the alignment of cuts in bloody Continue

5 Reviews

I liked it but not enough to buy another one of her books.

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jelabino said on Aug 10, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Not bad as a book plotwise, but it never kept me from sleeping so that I could go on reading..quite the contrary in fact.

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RubraAddicted said on May 2, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

First in the series

My rating is really somewhere between so-so and quite good. It's well-written, but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped (or as much as I had enjoyed Cross Bones, which is farther along in the series). I had two major complaints: first, it's a little heavy on the details and light on the ... (continue)

My rating is really somewhere between so-so and quite good. It's well-written, but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped (or as much as I had enjoyed Cross Bones, which is farther along in the series). I had two major complaints: first, it's a little heavy on the details and light on the action. Don't get me wrong - there is action, and there are parts where you really want to find out what happens next. But there were also a few places where she would describe something in detail that just didn't seem highly relevant to the story. And that's just my personal preference, but I'm not a visual person, and a book tends to lose me if it gets too flowery. And second - it was a bit too graphic and gruesome for me. I guess I should have expected this, but generally this character works with bones - not fresh corpses. And the brutality of the murders was just a bit too vivid and disturbing for me. But I'll probably try this author again, based on my impression of her later book.

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Bashful said on Apr 6, 2009 | Add your feedback

I had a hard time getting into this book at times, and it didn't always keep my attention very well, but overall I liked it and I would like to read more by this author.
I've never seen the TV show but I've heard good things both about it and these books. For me, the books go into too much ... (continue)

I had a hard time getting into this book at times, and it didn't always keep my attention very well, but overall I liked it and I would like to read more by this author.
I've never seen the TV show but I've heard good things both about it and these books. For me, the books go into too much detail about the bones and stuff but I bet some people are really into that and enjoy those parts. When she was actually moving along with the characters and the storyline then I was happy to be reading this.
The main character did drive me crazy sometimes. I have no idea how so much stuff happened where she just didn't bother to call the police or at least alert someone to the situation. I thought some of the writing was a bit clunky and so were the characters but I think this is her first book so maybe that will straighten itself out in future books.
It also drives me crazy when people use other languages in English language books. You can just say "John always spoke in French" or something along those lines. I don't actually need the French. I'll believe you if you just explain that the French is used. So other than some minor annoyances, it was a good read :)

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Deanna Kyre said on Mar 14, 2009 | Add your feedback

This was extremely scary! Not for reading right before bed for sure. LOL I couldn't put it down.

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Heather Landry said on Oct 7, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback