Dr. Kathy Reichs |
Kathy Reichs, PhD. is herself a forensic anthropologist, one of only 100 certified in the United States. Out of this career, she writes both non-fiction on the topic, and fiction. Her book series featuring Temperance Brennan inspired the television series Bones. Temperance is the forensic anthropologist for North Carolina who also travels to Quebec regularly as part of her job.
The TV series does not follow the books very closely. "Bones" is possibly on the autism spectrum, which is not at all true of the character in the books.
The books are authentic police proceedurals.
Recurring Characters:
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist
Katy, her daughter
#1 Déjà Dead 1997
#2 Death du Jour 1999
#3 Deadly Décisions 2000
#4 Fatal Voyage 2001
#5 Grave Secrets 2002
#6 Bare Bones 2003
Temperance is examining the sparse remains of a dead newborn baby that was burned in a wood stove. She's contemplating the personal repurcussions since she knows the baby's grandfather, when she is called to a site where there are a large number of bones buried in plastic bags. These turn out to be bear bones- of multiple bears. Almost all bear bones, except for some bird bones.
Then she has to go to the crash site of a small plane where the two occupants were badly burned. When she finally gets back to the bears... uh oh... there are some human hand bones too.
The quest to find out what the plane was doing when it crashed leads the investigation to an old house in the country with a privy full of more bones. Do any of the bones connect?
#7 Monday Mourning 2004
#8 Cross Bones 2005
#9 Break No Bones 2006
#10 Bones to Ashes 2007
#11 Devil Bones 2008
#12 206 Bones 2009
#13 Spider Bones 2010
#14 Flash and Bones 2011
#15 Bones are Forever 2012
#16 Bones of the Lost 2013
#17 Bones Never Lie 2014
#18 Speaking in Bones 2015
#19 The Bone Collection 2016
#20 A Conspiracy of Bones 2020
#21 The Bone Code July 2021
#22 Cold, Cold Bones July 2022
#23 The Bone Hacker August 2023
#24 Fire and Bones August 2024
