Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs

Reichs did a nice job with her title here. There is the obvious word play, of course, and the chapter headers of lines and phrases from the Mamas and the Papas's well-known "Monday, Monday," but the critical events hit on a series of Mondays as well.

The crimes here are truly appalling, and Tempe the scientist fights the system to ferret out the killer while Tempe the mother mourns the young women who are the victims. She thinks of them as "her" lost girls. Long dead and buried - and unknown. She is compelled not only to put names to them, but faces.

And school has begun - so these posts are inevitably going to be shorter and less frequent.