Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times

bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her other Temperance Brennan

books include Death du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones,

Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones, Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, 206 Bones,

Spider Bones, Flash and Bones, Bones Are Forever, Bones of the Lost, Bones Never Lie,

Speaking in Bones, A Conspiracy of Bones, The Bone Code, Cold Cold Bones, The Bone

Hacker and the Temperance Brennan short story collection, The Bone Collection. Fire and

Bones will be released in the Summer of 2024. In addition, Kathy co-authored the Virals young

adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. The best-selling titles are: Virals, Seizure, Code,

Exposure, Terminal, and the novella collection Trace Evidence. The series follows the

adventures of Temperance Brennan’s great niece, Tory Brennan. Dr. Reichs was also a

producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and

identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy

Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For

years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and to the

Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Dr.

Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume

a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she aided in the

identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also

assisted in the recovery of remains at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist

attacks.

Dr. Reichs is one of very few forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of

Forensic Anthropology. She served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology,

and as a member of the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. She is a

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-

Charlotte.

Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now

divides her time between Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Québec.