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.
