Déjà dead
- 541pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Une anthropologiste judiciaire (comme Patricia Cornwell) lance une héroïne qui fait son métier dans une étrange affaire de tueur en série qui se passe à Montréal. [SDM]
Temperance Brennan Séries
Cette série suit l'anthropologue judiciaire Temperance Brennan alors qu'elle aide à résoudre des crimes grâce à l'analyse de restes squelettiques. Son travail est lié à des affaires complexes et à des défis personnels qu'elle doit relever tout au long des livres.
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Passage mortel
- 474pages
- 17 heures de lecture
" J'étais retournée en salle d'autopsie, me sentant prête à me mettre au travail. Jusqu'à ce que j'aperçoive le petit corps sur la table en inox... Une poupée, ce fut ma première impression. (...) Mais ce n'était pas une poupée. " Les corps calcinés, un jeune couple égorgé, des bébés au cœur arraché, des jeunes filles vidées de leur sang... Pour la première fois dans sa carrière, l'anthropologue Judiciaire Tempe Brennan doit rassembler les pièces d'un véritable puzzle macabre. Car elle a une intuition : ces meurtres atroces, apparemment isolés, sont reliés les uns aux autres. Qui est l'artisan de ces crimes ? Un serial killer, un adepte des rites sataniques ou un membre d'une secte ?
A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class. Soon afterwards, the body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan knows she must stay professional, but when the young girl's body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot help but react. And when an exhumation reveals the bones of yet another innocent in a hidden grave close to a biker gang headquarters, Tempe begins a lone and risky investigation into the lawless underworld of organised crime.
Voyage fatal
- 500pages
- 18 heures de lecture
Sur les flancs des Smoky Mountains, en Caroline du Nord, la brume recouvre les corps démembrés des victimes d'une catastrophe aérienne : certains sont accrochés aux branches des arbres, d'autres, ceinturés dans leur siège passages, se consument lentement. Une vision d'horreur que découvre le docteur Tempérance Brennan, anthropologue judiciaire dépêchée sur les lieux. A proximité du site elle découvre, abandonnés par les loups, les restes d'un pied. Après analyse, Tempérance constate avec stupeur qu'il ne correspond à aucun des passagers... Peu de temps après, sous la pression du vice-gouverneur Tempérance Brennan est dessaisie de l'enquête. Une injustice qu'elle est bien décidée à réparer grâce au soutien amical du shérif Lucy Crowe. Mais dans cette région au passé lourd de traditions, si les montagnes sont " fumantes ", nul doute qu'elles ont quelque chose à cacher...
Secrets d'outre-tombe
- 442pages
- 16 heures de lecture
2001. Guatemala. Le petit village montagneux de Chupan Ya est le théâtre d'une étrange cérémonie: l'exhumation des squelettes de femmes et d'enfants massacrés par l'armée lors de la guerre civile qui ravagea le pays vingt ans auparavant... Appelée en renfort par une organisation humanitaire, l'anthropologue judiciaire Tempérance Brennan supervise les fouilles. Une tâche d'autant plus macabre que cette découverte semble faire écho à celle, beaucoup plus récente, du cadavre putréfié d'une jeune fille gisant dans une fosse septique de la capitale guatémaltèque. Y a-t-il un lien entre ces deux affaires ? Malgré les tentatives d'intimidation et la pression des autorités locales, Tempe se jette corps et âme dans une double enquête riche en surprises et en rebondissements sanglants... "
Bare Bones
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
It's a summer of record-breaking heat in Charlotte and Dr Temperance Brennan is looking forward to her first vacation in years. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. First there's the newborn skeleton found in a wood stove. Next, a small plane flies into a rock face. Both the pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition.
Meurtres à la carte
- 439pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here Das Böse hält keinen Winterschlaf. Kathy Reichs auch nicht. Was könnte frostiger sein als ein kanadischer Dezembersturm? Tempe Brennan, forensische Anthropologin in Montreal, wird an einem tristen Montagmorgen zu einem Fundort gerufen, der ihr das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt. Verscharrt in einem Kellergewölbe liegen die Leichen dreier junger Frauen. Nicht eine Gewebefaser, kein Fetzen Kleidung geben Aufschluss darüber, wann und warum diese Mädchen sterben mussten. Nur dank akribischer Ermittlungen und weiblicher Intuition kommt Tempe dem Mörder auf die Spur. Doch sie muss auf alles gefasst sein, denn ihr Gegner ist an Kaltblütigkeit nicht zu übertreffen … Tempe Brennans siebter Fall.
À tombeau ouvert
- 500pages
- 18 heures de lecture
Alors que l'anthropologue judiciaire Tempe Brennan est chargée d'examiner le corps d'un homme tué d'une balle dans la tête, un inconnu lui remet la photo d'un squelette. " Voici la clé du meurtre ", dit-il. Ses premières recherches révèlent à Tempe que cette ossature est un vestige archéologique retrouvé lors d'un chantier mené à Massada, en Israël. Pourquoi toute trace de la découverte a-t-elle été effacée des rapports de fouilles ? Pourquoi assassine-t-on ceux qui y ont été mêlés ? Et qui était cet homme ? Certains prononcent le nom de Jésus de Nazareth... Tempe va suivre la piste jusqu'au bout, au risque de sa vie.
Break no bones
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Dr Temperance Brennan and her students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on an island near Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach. The bone is fresh and the remains are still topped by wisps of hair âe" itâe(tm)s a recent burial, and a case Tempe must take. Tempe determines that the deceased is a middle-aged white male - but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? And what does an unusual vertical fracture of one of the vertebrae signify? While Tempe is trying to piece together the evidence, her personal life is thrown into turmoil. But before long, another body is discovered - and Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into a shocking investigation which will challenge her entire view of humanity.
Temperance Brennanis a brilliant, sexy archaeologist who is called on to solve the toughest crime cases. The discovery of a young girsl's body in Acadia CanadaEvangeline, Tempe's best childhood friend was also from Acadia.
An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint&In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display is revealed. A human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre figurines. Bead
206 Bones
- 308pages
- 11 heures de lecture
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the Fox television hit, Bones, returns with a spectacular new Tempe Brennan novel. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct... Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy -- and the case. Someone made an incriminating phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about the call was dead. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third. Seamlessly weaving between Tempe's present-tense terror as she's held captive and her memory of the cases of these murdered women, Reichs conveys the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting tale unfolds. Reichs is writing at the top of her game.
Spider Bones
- 306pages
- 11 heures de lecture
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968--the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice? Taking the remains to JPAC in Hawaii for reanalysis, Tempe is joined by her colleague and ex-lover Detective Andrew Ryan (how "ex" is he?) and by her daughter, recovering from her own tragic loss. Soon another set of remains is located, with Lowery's dog tags tangled among them. Three bodies--all identified as Lowery.--From publisher description
Flash and Bones
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
FLASH! Illuminated by lightning, a lifeless human hand seems to reach from a barrel of asphalt beside the Charlotte racetrack. Forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan must find answers before thousands arrive for the year's big race. But before she can carry out a proper examination, the FBI mysteriously confiscate and destroy the body. It's a dead end. Until a young engineer alerts Tempe to the disappearance of a couple twelve years earlier - and a deadly conspiracy unravels.
The gripping new Temperance Brennan novel from the world class forensic anthropologist and Number 1 bestselling author. A newborn baby is found wedged in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to investigate. While there, she discovers the mummified remains of two more babies within the same room. Shocked and distressed, Tempe must use all her skills and inner strength to focus on the facts. But when the autopsies reveal that the children died of unnatural causes, the hunt for the mother - a young woman with a seedy past and at least three aliases - is on. The trail leads Tempe to Yellowknife, a cold, desolate diamond-mining town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, where her quest for the truth only throws up more questions, more secrets, and more dead bodies. Taking risks and working alone, Tempe refuses to give up until she has discovered why the babies died. But in such a hostile environment, can she avoid being the next victim?
The gripping new Temperance Brennan novel from the world-class forensic anthropologist and Number 1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier. Who was the girl? And was she murdered? Dr Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist, must find the answers. She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the country. Could there be a connection between the two cases? Convinced that the girlâe(tm)s death was no accident, Tempe soon finds herself at the centre of a conspiracy that extends from South America to Afghanistan. But to find justice for the dead, she must be more courageous - and take more extreme action - than ever before.
The gripping new Temperance Brennan novel from the world-class forensic anthropologist and Number 1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs. Tempe is faced with the horrifying possibility that the killer who got away in Monday Mourning is back... For a decade, Temperance Brennan has been haunted by the one who got away. The killer of young women. The monster. And the one who has now come back. Feeding on fear, grief and rage. Killing again. Killing girls. Getting closer. Coming for Tempe.
The latest blockbuster suspense novel in the pulse-pounding Temperance Brennan series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. For every case Temperance Brennan has solved, there remain innumerable unidentified bodies in her lab. Information on some of these is available online, where amateur sleuths sometimes take a stab at solving cases. One day, Tempe gets a call from Hazel “Lucky” Strike, a web sleuth who believes she’s successfully connected a body in Tempe’s lab to a missing persons report on an eighteen-year-old named Cora Teague. Since the bones in her lab do seem to match Cora’s medical records, Tempe looks into the case, returning to the spot where the bones were originally found. What seems at first to be an isolated tragedy takes on a more sinister cast as Tempe uncovers two more sets of bones nearby. When she then learns that the area is known as a viewing point for a famous unexplained light phenomenon with significance for a local cult, Tempe’s suspicious turn to murder by ritual sacrifice—a theory thrown into question when Hazel herself turns up dead. Still reeling from her mother’s diagnosis and the shock of Andrew Ryan’s potentially life-change proposal, Tempe races to solve the murders before the body count climbs further.
A Conspiracy of Bones
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
EVERY BODY HAS SECRETS It all starts with a series of text messages. Each message contains a new picture of a corpse, missing its face and hands. Dr Temperance Brennan needs to find out who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. The only problem is, she has been kicked off the team. So she goes rogue, knowing that she is the only one who can solve this case. As she starts her investigation she discovers a connection to a decade-old missing child case. The more she uncovers, the darker and more twisted the picture becomes ...
NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author KATHY REICHS returns with her next edge-of-your seat thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author KATHY REICHS returns with her next edge-of-your seat thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
