Monday Mourning This episode has Dr. Tempe
Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who works in both Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Quebec,
working in on a case in Montreal in frigid, snowy December. She was called to testify at a
trial there, and got stuck checking out some bones found in shallow graves in the basement
of a pizzeria. The obnoxious police detective she deals with thinks they’re old bones
because of old buttons found with the bones. Tempe disagrees. Her best friend in life, Anne,
flies up to Montreal to re-assess her marriage and they end up doing a Cagney and Lacey
act, following clues the police can’t be bothered dealing with. Tempe is also
wrestling with her tenuous relationship with Andy Ryan, Quebec police
lieutenant-detective. She works with him professionally at times and they’ve kept
their relationship discreet. But the relationship is rocky this December and working with
Andy on this case doesn’t help. But through research on the
Internet, Tempe thinks she’s figured out who the bones belong to and what has
happened. There are a lot of unanswered questions, but the grizzly scenes she and the
police uncover disturb them all. Then she gets a desperate phone call and goes out on her
own. Will she survive? This was a pretty quick read and,
fortunately, didn’t include too much scientific mumbo-jumbo. Mondays just aren’t
the best for Tempe in this story. |