Monday Mourning: A Tempe Brennan Novel (7) (A Temperance Brennan Novel) Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 2005

Monday mourning, is another Reich's success, the depth she uses to describe every aspect of her stories keep me coming back for the next book. Her characters are so relatable.

After last year's disappointing BARE BONES some of us who are Kathy Reich fans felt the series was going the way of the Kay Scarpetta books...downhill. But MONDAY MOURNING gives the series a needed bounce. It is definitely a fun summer read.Reich returns her heroine to Montreal, which is a good move. Her forensic crime mysteries are richer and more interesting when set up North. She also tones down the romance, which is good, it simply is not her writing strength.Why not five stars? The information about Carbon 14 dating was interesting but a bit too detailed. Also, the information about Stockholm syndrome was done to death...we know, we know.....too many Law and Order, or CSI shows. We know all this, you don't have to explain it to us. Plus, I had the mystery woman in Ryan's life figured out 100 pages before her identity was made known. It was WAY too obvious and cliche.Finally, it is a bit unrealistic, and more than a little disappointing, to see smart, accomplished women taking such foolish chances - interjecting themselves into dangerous situations. Early in the book, the main character, Dr. Brennan describes "...Tinsel town has done another tap dance; the public has been conned into believing crime scene techs are detectives....this latest Hollywood myth needs a kick in the pants." I was encouraged and amused by this passage, and surprised when it forshadowed the rest of the plot.All in all, readers who enjoy a good medical / sceintific mystery will enjoy this book.

Great story.. the best in the series so far. Great read though be warned if you are triggered be sexual violence.

Had a hard time putting it down. Quick moving and smooth story line. I will continue to follow Kathy Reichs

Telling the story of some of the thousands of missing young women and girls can’t be easy. Nor is reading about the abductions, torture and murder of many of those girls. But I applaud the effort to raise awareness that such things happen and that there are people out there who do such things.It is the plot in this book that is disappointingly flawed. [Spoiler alert.] It was immediately apparent that the break-in of Brennan’s apartment was focused on her and therefore most likely to have been connected to a case she was working on. (Besides, this is a scenario that occurs with some frequency in her books.) And, surely, immediately upon finding the women in the basement cell, she and the police would have checked for other secret rooms in the basement, considered the likelihood that a third person was involved in the crimes, and identified the fingerprints on the letter opener. The most glaring errors were the failure to bring in a psychiatrist as soon as the women were found, and the ER doc keeping the case after the victims had been admitted. Finally, it beggared belief that Brennan would gone to the house at the end without police escort or would involved a civilian friend in such a blatantly dangerous mission.In terms of the writing, the scientific explanations of carbon and other dating techniques were far too long and detailed.

I love reading Kathy Reich's. Her books are always entertaining and a book you can't put down. This one was no exception. Great read!

Kathy Reichs Novels about Tempe Brennan are an absolute must read. They don't have to be read in order of publication but it does help if you like to keep up with Tempe's private life throughout the stories, as I do. If you like Patricia Cornwell then you will love Kathy's books. I have now read all but one of her books and I am putting off reading it for now because I know I will miss the character. I would recommend that anyone try at least one of the Temperance Brennan Novels, I'm sure you will find it hard to put down and once you have read it, look forward to the next one. I have thoroughly enjoyed these Novels, I hope you get the same pleasure from them as I have. Please keep writing Temperance Brennan Novels Kathy !

I'm re reading Kathy Reichs and discovered I hadn't read Momday Mourning. It was as great as the others, and Forensics is always a compelling. I suggest re-reading or if new to Kathy Reichs read!. She doesn't disappoint! As a Forensic Anthropologist and Writer she writes of what what she knows and weaves in a compelling story with forensics and brilliance ensues. Oh did I say Read Kathy Reichs!