Deadly Decisions Trivia Quiz

Answer: Emily

The hit was on a man named Richard "Spider" Marcotte. He belonged to the Vipers, an outlaw motorcycle club. Emily Anne Toussaint was only nine years old. She had two younger sisters, Cynthia (age six) and Hannah (age four).

Buffy and Willow are characters from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Christine is a character from "Bones".

Answer: Wolverine

A lot of French is spoken in Canada. Operation Carcajou was a special unit made up of law enforcement professionals from all areas, who came together to try and stop OMCs (outlaw motorcycle clubs). When Tempe arrived at the building that served as the unit's headquarters, she commented on the stuffed wolverine in the lobby.

She explained that the English translation of 'carcajou' was 'wolverine'.

Answer: Yes

Andrew had issues with drugs in his past, but had overcome all of that to become a respected police detective. So, when Tempe heard about the arrest and reasons for it, she tried to believe it was a mistake. Then when Andrew's partner, Jean Bertrand, finally talked to Tempe, she resigned herself that it must be true. She accepted that a bit quickly. I assumed he was undercover.

Answer: Leukemia

She went back into her memory and recounted her experience of his illness and then his funeral. She said he'd been her Christmas brother, and she'd treasured him. No amount of praying could save him, and her loss had been huge. We met her sister Harry in book two.

Answer: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Savannah Claire Osprey had been sixteen when she vanished in May of 1984. Her mother reported her as missing, but two days later recounted that story. It was suspected that her husband, Dwayne Allen Osprey, had coerced her into changing her story. He was an abusive drunk known to resent Savannah, who'd been born with hydrocephalus. Tempe found her skull and the tubing from a ventriculoperitoneal, or VP, shunt that had been placed in her brain shortly after birth.

After the teeth identified her skull, Tempe called back to South Carolina, where Savannah had been living.

She talked to an old friend, SBI Agent Kate Brophy. Savannah had been one of Kate's first cases, so she kept the bones all these years later, bones found on Myrtle Beach nine months after Savannah's disappearance. Dwayne died in a car accident in 1989, so the investigation had died with him. Tempe flew home to look over the bones Kate thought were Savannah's, and she took samples back to Quebec with her to get a DNA analysis.

Answer: Reporter

It seemed as though Isabelle may be trying to fix Tempe up with Lyle, whom Tempe had first seen outside of one of the crime scenes she'd been at. This was at a dinner party at Isabelle's house. Tempe's nephew Kit was in town and accompanied her to the party, where Tempe found out about his vast knowledge of motorcycles. When they left the party, Kit discovered an envelope on her car that contained an eyeball inside with a note in French that read "we are watching you".

When Lyle called her later to ask her out on a date, she said no, but did say it was alright if he contacted Kit to get together. Lyle claimed to be interested in Kit's knowledge of motorcycles. We later found out that Lyle had orchestrated his meeting of Tempe.

Answer: Blood spatter analysis

First, Ronald gave her a crash course in the subject of blood spatter. Then, they went over the blood from Cherokee's crime scene, which had also involved a fire. After they reviewed the evidence and discussed possible scenarios, they both concluded that Cherokee had been beaten severely, then moved into the chair he'd been found in, and then shot in the head.

Afterward a fire had been started, possibly as a forensic countermeasure. As Tempe suspected, and George Dorsey had insisted, it was too sloppy to have been a biker assassination.

Her interview with George and her piqued interest in an alternate scenario to Claudel's, made the man seek to remove her from Carcajou.

Answer: Andrew Ryan

Detective Andrew Ryan, who Tempe had not heard from since his arrest, was at the biker clubhouse when she was taken inside. He was standing next to what Tempe thought had to be the man in charge, and warned that killing her would cause too much attention from law enforcement.

He also said some pretty awful things to her before she was allowed to leave. At this point in the story, Dr. LaManche was in the hospital after having collapsed at work.

Answer: False

He was shot, as was reporter (and former biker) Lyle Crease. But, they both survived the attack. Andrew Ryan had also been there, and killed the man who was bent on killing Crease, who'd used Kit as a human shield. Jocelyn Dion, who'd been working inside the lab with Tempe, had informed the Hells Angels that Crease had killed their boy Cherokee. So, the outlaw club used the funeral to exact revenge. Crease and Cherokee had spent time together with the Angels in the 1980s, but only Cherokee was interested in continuing that outlaw association. Crease also revealed that Savannah Osprey had been strangled at a gathering that got out of hand, and parts of her skeleton has been mounted in a clubhouse for a time. Cherokee eventually transported the ones Tempe found to Canada, while others had been left in South Carolina.

Answer: Dr. LaManche

It turned out that Jocelyn was the person who really killed Cherokee, whose real name was Yves Desjardins. She framed Lyle Crease for that murder, and admitted as much to Tempe right before her own death at the train station. Jocelyn also mailed a letter to her mother, which spelled out her own murder of Cherokee, framing of Crease, and details of Spider Marquette's murder, which sadly led to the death of young Emily Toussaint. Dr. LaManche was recovering in the hospital at the end, as was Kit and Crease, and George Dorsey was murdered while in jail by his own club. Tempe pondered, as this story closed, on how long Andrew Ryan would be undercover. And while she had no proof he was undercover, he'd given her a clue at the biker clubhouse that made her have faith that he was. She told herself she'd wait for him to be able to reveal the truth.

And so, the story would continue...