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Deadly Decisions
Jun 28, 2025 12:24 AM

Author:Kathy Reichs

Deadly Decisions

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The third gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.

A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class. Soon afterwards, the body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away.

Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan knows she must stay professional, but when the young girl’s body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot help but react.

And when an exhumation reveals the bones of yet another innocent in a hidden grave close to a biker gang headquarters, Tempe begins a lone and risky investigation into the lawless underworld of organised crime.

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Dr Kathy Reichs is a professional forensic anthropologist. She has worked for decades with chief medical examiners, the FBI, and even a United Nations Tribunal on Genocide.

However, she is best known for her internationally bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, which draw on her remarkable experience to create the most vividly authentic, true-to-life crime thrillers on the market and which are the inspiration for the hit TV series Bones.

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Many of the world's greatest thriller writers are huge fans of her work:

'Kathy Reichs writes smart – no, make that brilliant – mysteries that are as realistic as nonfiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about Jack Reacher, or Alex Cross.' JAMES PATTERSON

'One of my favourite writers.' KARIN SLAUGHTER

'I love Kathy Reichs? – always scary, always suspenseful, and I always learn something.' LEE CHILD

'Nobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. She’s the real deal.' DAVID BALDACCI

'Each book in Kathy Reichs’s fantastic Temperance Brennan series is better than the last. They’re filled with riveting twists and turns – and no matter how many books she writes, I just can’t get enough!' LISA SCOTTOLINE

'Nobody writes a more imaginative thriller than Kathy Reichs.' CLIVE CUSSLER

Reviews

You’ll want to keep turning the pages long after lights out to find out what happens next … Reichs’ real-life expertise gives her novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would kill for

—— Daily Express

With Kathy Reichs the reader knows they're in the hands of an expert

—— Sunday Express

Reichs' seamless blending of fascinating science and dead-on psychological portrayals, not to mention a whirlwind of a plot, make [her novels] a must read

—— Jeffery Deaver

Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs

—— Daily News

A truly impressive writer

—— We Love This Book

Reading Reichs is always an education one way or another. There is plenty of action... but it is the detail that actually makes it gripping

—— Evening Standard

Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs

—— Daily News

A truly impressive writer

—— We Love This Book

An astonishing debut . . . Hobbs is up there with the best . . . a masterpiece

—— Guardian

Smoking-fast . . . the debut of a gifted crime writer who will only get better

—— New York Times

A pulse-pumping heist thriller

—— Rolling Stone

Neville's third outing confirms him as the king of Belfast noir

—— John O'Connell , Guardian

A stir-fry of death and addiction

—— Tom Adair , Scotland on Sunday

Scary, but always humane

—— Joan Smith , The Sunday Times

This guy can write.

—— James Ellroy

Neville has the talent to believably blend the tropes of the crime novel and those of a horror, in the process creating a page-turning thriller akin to a collaboration between John Connolly and Stephen King...

—— The Sunday Independent

A brilliant thriller: unbearably tense, stomach-churningly frightening.

—— The Observer

A no-frills thriller that barrels along at a ferocious pace, pausing only to offer the occasional nod to 1970s paranoid classics such as William Goldman's Marathon Man.

—— Declan Burke , Irish Times

Stuart Neville's third novel effortlessly exceeds the high expectations created by the first two installments... Stuart Neville's latest novel is a thrilling masterpiece. From its gripping and well paced plot to its well defined and intriguing characters, Stolen Souls is a powerful novel, which does not shy away from exploring the new literary landscape for Northern Irish fiction.

—— Kellie Chambers , Ulster Tatler

Belinda Bauer's thrillers are always compelling, always original, always brilliant. I will rush to read anything she writes

—— Mark Billingham

Bold and original, Rubbernecker draws you into unexpected psychological territory with its sophisticated, fast-paced story. A thought-provoking page-turner you won't be able to put down.

—— KOETHI ZAN, author of The Never List
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