Tempe begins the case in Montreal before traveling to the Northwest Territories and Alberta to track a missing woman and her children. The investigation exposes exploitation, trafficking, and the harsh realities of Canada’s northern communities.
Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. She is affiliated with the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec.
