Monday Mourning

London: Arrow Books. Good+. 2005. First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB; 154 X 32 X 241 millimeters . Some reading and cover creasing, some shelf and edge wear with slight split to base rear edge of cocked spine, paper edge toned with some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of Arrow UK mass market edition with full number line, 2005. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover design uncredited incorporating photos by Arcangel Images. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Temperance Brennan Series; Vol. 7; 464 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... .