Kathy Reichs

Dr. Kathleen Joan Reichs (PhD) (née Toelle, born July 7, 1948) is an American crime writer, academic and forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A professor of anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials. She is well known for inspiring the television series Bones.

**Fiction** In addition to technical books, as of January 2019, Reichs has written 23 novels, which have been translated into 30 languages. 20 of those novels constitute the "Temperance Brennan" series. Her first novel, Déjà Dead, won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

The fictional heroine in her novels, Temperance "Tempe" Brennan, is also a forensic anthropologist. Her lifestyle closely mimics that of her creator,with Reichs stating that Brennan and she "have the same CV" and that "Some of Tempe's personality traits are also mine," but there are differences in their personal lives, such as the character's alcoholism. A good portion of the novels are based on real life science, and Reichs has stated that she is "fastidiously conscientious about getting the science right." She has used experience from her career in her novels and said about Déjà Dead that "Everything I describe in the book, I actually did." In the novel Grave Secrets, she uses her experience from her visit to Guatemala.

She has also co-written (with her son Brendan) the young adult novels series named Virals, centered on Tempe's great-niece, Tory Brennan, and a pack of her friends, Ben, Hiram, Shelton, and wolfdog Cooper.

A stand-alone novel, Two Nights, published July 11, 2017, features Sunday Night, a tough-talking, scarred heroine.

• Déjà Dead
  Déjà Dead 1998
• No Rest for the Dead
  No Rest for the Dead 2011
• Bare bones
  Bare bones 2003
• Grave Secrets
  Grave Secrets 2002
• Death du jour

  
  Death du jour 1999
• Virals
  Virals 2010
• Bones never lie
  Bones never lie 2014
• Fatal Voyage
  Fatal Voyage 2001
• Bones to Ashes

  
  Bones to Ashes 2007
• Cross Bones
  Cross Bones 2005
• 206 Bones Kathy Reichs
  206 Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
• Break No Bones
  Break No Bones 2006
• Monday mourning
  Monday mourning 2004
• Exposure

  
  Exposure 2014
• A conspiracy of bones
  A conspiracy of bones 2020
• Bones of the Lost (Temperance Brennan #16)

  
  Bones of the Lost (Temperance Brennan #16) 2013
• Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan #15)

  
  Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan #15) 2012
• Deadly Decisions
  Deadly Decisions 2002
• Flash and bones
  Flash and bones 2011
• 206 bones
  206 bones 2009
• Devil Bones
  Devil Bones 2008
• Code: (Virals 3) (Tory Brennan)
  Code: (Virals 3) (Tory Brennan) 2013