Bones Are Forever

MARIE-REINE MATTER

KATHY REICHS, like her character Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist, formerly for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and currently for the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale for the province of Quebec. A professor in the department of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she is one of only eighty-eight forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, is past Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, and serves on the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. Reichs’s first book, Déjà Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times best-seller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her latest Temperance Brennan novel, Flash and Bones, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. She is also the author, with Brendan Reichs, of Virals and Seizure. Her website is www.kathyreichs.com.

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