Kathy Reichs





Kathy Reichs

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born
January 01, 1950 in Chicago, The United States

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Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A professor of anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.

Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award
◊ Best First Novel (1998): Deja Dead


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Reading the Kathy Reichs blog page is not for the faint of heart. You have to remain mentally agile, ready for anything, coiled like an intellectual spring. With that said, the writer unabashedly drags the innocent reader from human interest to bovine. Try to keep up.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 123,728 ratings · 8,226 reviews · 30 distinct works
Déjà Dead (Temperance Brenn...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 22,730 ratings — published 1997 — 44 editions
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Death du Jour (Temperance B...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 10,210 ratings — published 1999 — 46 editions
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Fatal Voyage (Temperance Br...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 9,775 ratings — published 2001 — 47 editions
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance ...
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 8,171 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions
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Bare Bones (Temperance Bren...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 7,650 ratings — published 2003 — 43 editions
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Monday Mourning (Temperance...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 7,273 ratings — published 2004 — 42 editions
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Grave Secrets (Temperance B...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7,353 ratings — published 2002 — 39 editions
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Break No Bones (Temperance ...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 7,355 ratings — published 2006 — 39 editions
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Deadly Décisions (Temperanc...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 7,363 ratings — published 2000 — 36 editions
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Cross Bones (Temperance Bre...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 7,036 ratings — published 2005 — 38 editions
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More books by Kathy Reichs…
Déjà Dead Death du Jour Deadly Décisions Fatal Voyage Grave Secrets Bare Bones Monday Mourning
Temperance Brennan (15 books)
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Virals Seizure
Virals (3 books)
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3.922439086618191 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 7,839 ratings

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“Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?”
Kathy Reichs, Virals

“Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.”
Kathy Reichs, Break No Bones

“Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?”
Kathy Reichs, Virals

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