Tempe is determined to identify the two bodies and also the two bodies discovered some fifteen years previously under similar circumstances – hence the flashback.Īs Tempe investigates the deaths – and along the way some unrelated matters – the reader is taken on a journey through the intricacies of the development of vaccines, genome sequencing, DNA testing, big pharma and a rather frightening disease called capnocytophaga. A plastic container washed from the sea’. When she first sights the bodies, she thinks: ‘ From nowhere, a flashback image. In The Bone Code, Tempe is called to assist in identifying the bodies of a young woman and a young girl discovered in a sealed container washed up on shore by a hurricane. Andrew Ryan – Tempe’s live-in lover – is a lieutenant-détective with the Équipe des Crimes contre la Personne, Sûreté du Québec – or put more simply, the police.

Tempe works with the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médicine Légale in Montreal or, for brevity’s sake, the LSJML. In common with her creator, Tempe is a forensic anthropologist and a good part of the novels centres on scientific matters. She has also written four bestsellers featuring Tory Brennan: Virals, Seizure, Code and Exposure.Kathy Reichs has now written twenty novels featuring Temperance Brennan – more informally called Tempe. She has written seventeen bestsellers featuring Dr Temperance Brennan, the most recent being Bones Never Lie. She is also a producer of the chilling hit TV series Bones.

All eleven of her novels have been international bestsellers.

Kathy Reichs's first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. A native of Chicago, she now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Kathy Reichs has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is currently a member of the National Police Services Advisory Board in Canada. As part of her work at JPAC she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Kathy Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala.

For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and continues to do so for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as one of only seventy-seven forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Dr Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerising forensic thrillers.

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