Mystery Women Authors

Kathy Reichs

Biography

Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina and the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaries et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec.  She is one of only 50 forensic anthropologists certified by 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 PhD at Northwestern.  She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials. A second novel is underway.

Books

Deja Dead

Kathy Reichs blasts into Patricia Cornwell territory -- and onto the New York Times bestseller list -- with this critically acclaimed debut novel inspired by Reichs' own career. Dr. Temperance Brennan, the wry, impassioned director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, is driven to unravel shocking acts of violence by reading the bones of the dead.

In the year since Tempe left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. But when an unidentified female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in garbage bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern within the grisly handiwork -- and her professional detachment gives way to a harrowing search for a killer in the city's winding streets. With little help from the police, Tempe calls on her expertise, honed in the isolated intensity of the autopsy suite, to investigate on her own. But her determined chase is about to place those closest to her -- her best friend and her daughter -- in mortal danger....

Published Mass Market Paperbacks 1998

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