Deadly Decisions by: Reichs, Kathy
hardcover | 332 pages | ISBN:0-684-85971-8
Year Published:2000 – Scribner | Tidewater Price: $37.00
Kathy Reichs is fast developing a reputation as a must read author for fans of crime thrillers, and her latest novel, Deadly Decisions, won’t disappoint. Continuing with the character of Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who divides her time between Montreal and North Carolina, Reichs has developed a compellingly realistic heroine. As a forensic anthropologist herself, Reichs has an intimate knowledge of this line of work.
In this outing, Tempe Brennan encounters a crime that is literally ripped from today’s headlines- the biker wars in Montreal. When a nine year old girl is shot dead on a Montreal street, a random victim of the power struggle between rival biker gangs, Brennan finds herself becoming personally involved. The discovery of a skeleton belonging to a missing North Carolina teenager found hundreds of miles from where she disappeared provides another tantalizing link to the first crime.
As she helps police with their investigation, Tempe is drawn into the shadowy world of outlaw bikers when her nephew becomes dangerously enamoured with their lifestyle. Powerfully written, with chilling realism, this thriller is Kathy Reichs at her best.