Tempe investigates skeletal remains found in the basement of a Montreal pizza restaurant. The bones point to a decades‑old crime involving missing girls, institutional failures, and a killer who may still be active.
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.