Monday Mourning

London: William Heinemann Ltd. Good in Good dust jacket. 2004. Second Printing. Hardcover. 154 X 32 X 241 millimeters . Some shelf wear and tear to unclipped DJ with some white paint marks to rear cover and edges of boards, small ding to top edge of front board with slight shelf wear to base of boards. ; Second printing of Heinemann UK hardback edition. Good reading copy, no names or marks inside. DJ design uncredited incorporating photos by Arcangel Images. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Temperance Brennan Series; Vol. 7; 320 pages; Tempe Brennan has come to Montreal from Charlotte in early December to testify as an expert witness at a trial. As Forensic Anthropologist for the province of Quebec, that's part of her job. She should be going over her notes, but she's freezing her behind off instead, digging in the basement of a pizza parlour. Not fun. Not with all the rats. And the cold. And, now, the skeletonised earthly remains of three people, three young women. When did they die? How did they get there? Homicide detective Luc Claudel, never Tempe's greatest fan, believes the bones are historic. Not his case, not his concern. The pizza parlour owner, the Prince of Pizza as Claudel calls him, found some 19th century buttons with the skeletons, another indicator of the bones' probable age. But Tempe has her doubts. Something doesn't make sense... .