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Deadly Decisions

Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

33 reviews
Sales Rank: 2550

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 1.3

ISBN: 0099307103
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099307105
ASIN: 0099307103

Publication Date: January 3, 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
Kathy Reichs' forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is arguably the best of the current crop of thriller pathologists; her third outing, Deadly Decisions, pits her reconstructive skills against a bunch of Hell's Angels with a taste for ultra-violence. Hardly has she pieced together the jigsaw fragments of identical twins, before she finds herself engaged in identifying the teenage girl whose skull and long bones turned up near the grave of some earlier victims of inter-gang strife. Her sweetheart Ryan is under investigation for corruption; her nephew is sleeping on the sofa and showing an unholy fascination with bikes and bikers; and Tempe is having a series of really bad hair days. In addition to the usual fascinating material about the identification of human bones, Reichs tells us all about the way in which biker gangs have become a serious part of the criminal underworld, a subculture with a taste for mayhem and with rules it is death to break. Tempe is on her usual brittle good form--a woman torn between her cold clinical intelligence and a crusading desire to avenge the helpless that regularly brings her into conflict with more quietly committed colleagues. This is an excellent thriller that combines real intelligence with a radical social anger. --Roz Kaveney

Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

Too Much Coincidence this Time January 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

A nine year old girl is murdered during a crossfire between motorcycle gangs. Tempe gets involved. During the investigation she manages to find a North Carolina/Montreal connection, which was a little coincidental in the last book, too much this time. The blood spatter description was way too long and unlike the forensic descriptions in her last two books, was boring. She fights too much with the cops and makes stupid decisions the Tempe in the first two books never would have made. Her nice guy nephew seems to have gotten all stupid as well. And if all that isn't enough, Reichs went a little over the top in making the bikers so bad.

All that said though, I still found "Deadly Decisions" to be a fast, fun read and am giving it three stars.

Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne

3 out of 5 stars

Enjoyable read but too many motor clubs April 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan gets involved in the killings that occur when rivalling motor gangs start killing each other's members in Montreal in order to get hold of the profitable drug trade in the city. She uses all her forensic skills to determine who the victims are and who killed them. Meanwhile her 19 year old nephew Kit is staying at her place and his obsession with Harley Davidsons gets him in contact with some of the most dangerous figures of the gangs.

The descriptions of the forensic work are revealing and realistic, which is no wonder when one considers that Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist herself. However, the descriptions of all the rivalling motorclubs and their connections are tedious and every now and then I lost track who was a member of which motor club and which motor club had a feud with which other motor club.

1 out of 5 stars

Deadly propaganda November 23, 2006
3 out of 8 found this review helpful

This book is nothing more or less than a piece of crude innacurate propaganda written about a sub-culture the author obviously has no actual personal knowledge of whatsoever. A tedious and irritating text which favours polemic over writing skill. As a thriller, its lack of tension, cardboard characters and nauseating self-congratulatory tone render it just about unreadable.

A bad copy of Patricia Cornwell - herself no great shakes at actual writing though both these authors are just great at long, exhaustive and very dull lists of forensic equipment. Perhaps they should consider writing for the forensic mail-order catalogues.

4 out of 5 stars

A worthy read! October 2, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This next step in the life and times of Temperance, to me was a step up in plot and dramatic tension. (Also less uncomfortable gore content - sorry I'm a wuss!!)
Generally I believe a more complex storyline than previously, which made it all the harder to put down. If you enjoyed the last two, I guarentee you'll love this one.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent May 24, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

It was the first of Kathy Reichs books that I have read and I could not put it down quite literally I finished the book in one day whilst on holiday. The narrative flowed from one idea to another and whilst the stoy was not complex it does twist and turn and take the reader in various directions. It is a great holiday read.