DEJA DEAD **AWARD WINNER**

New York, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1997. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of pages dusty else near fine in near fine dust jacket, with small wrinkles to bottom and top at rear panel else near fine, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD WINNER and a DILYS Award Nominee. "A superb new writer introduces her intrepid heroine to crime fiction. Dr. Tempe Brennan, a trowel-packing forensic anthropologist from North Carolina, works in Montreal's Laboratoire de Medecine Legale examining recovered bodies to help police solve missing-persons cases and murders. It's clear to Tempe that the remains of several women killed and savagely mutilated point to a sadistic serial killer, but she can't convince the police. Determined to prevent more brutal deaths, she sleuths solo, tracking her quarry through Montreal's seedy underworld of hookers, where her anthropologist friend Gabby, doing her own scary research, is being stalked by a creep. Despite her ability to work among fetid, putrefying smells that "leap out and grab" and her "go-to-hell attitude" with seasoned cops, Tempe is as vulnerable as a soft Carolina morning. When a grinning skull is planted in her garden, her investigation turns personal and escalates to an intense and satisfying conclusion. Except for imparting an excess of lab information, Reichs, also a forensic anthropologist, drives the pace at a heady clip..." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.