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Devil Bones
A Novel
(Scribner,August 2008)
Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Évangéline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was "dangerous."
Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl?
Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.
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Bones to Ashes
A Novel
(paperback: Pocket Star, 2008)
(
hardcover: Scribner, 2007)
Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Évangéline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was "dangerous."
Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl?
Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.
Read an Excerpt of Chapter 1 here!
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Break No Bones
(Pocket Books, 2007)
To some, the dead are a commodity. For Tempe Brennan, they hold the key to cracking a horrific crime ring.
Among the ancient remains in a Native American burial ground, Tempe discovers a fresh skeleton -- and what began as an ordinary teaching stint at an archeology field school in Charleston, South Carolina, fast becomes a heated investigation into an alarming pattern of homicides. The clues hidden in the bones lead to a street clinic where a monstrous discovery awaits, and Tempe -- whose personal life is in upheaval, with two men competing for her -- can't afford any distractions as she pieces together a shattering and terrifying puzzle.
Read an Excerpt of Chapter 1 here!
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Monday
Mourning
(Scribner, 2004)
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both
North Carolina and Quebec, has come to Montreal during the bleak days of
December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial.
She should be going over her notes, but instead she's digging in the
basement of a pizza parlor, investigating the skeletonized remains of three
young women. How did they get there? When did they die?
Homicide detective Luc Claudel believes the bones are historic. Not his
case, not his concern. The pizza parlor owner found nineteenth-century
buttons near the skeletons. Claudel takes them as an indicator of the bones'
antiquity.
But something doesn't make sense. Tempe examines the bones in her lab and
establishes approximate age with Carbon 14. Study of tooth enamel tells her
where the women were born. If she's right, Claudel has three recent murders
on his hands. Definitely his case.
Detective Andrew Ryan, meanwhile, is acting mysteriously. What are those
private phone calls he takes, and why does he suddenly disappear just when
Tempe is beginning to hope he might be a permanent part of her life?
As Tempe searches for answers, she finds herself drawn deep into a web of
evil into which women have disappeared, never to return....Tempe may be
next.
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Bare Bones
(Scribner, July 2003)
It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr.
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical
examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation.
She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing.
A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. The
mother, Tamela Banks, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared. Did
she kill her infant, or is an innocent teenager also about to become a
victim?
A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a
sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. Was
it pilot error? Something more sinister? And what is the mysterious black
substance covering the bodies?
Most puzzling of all are the bones discovered at a remote
farm outside Charlotte. What has Tempe's dog, Boyd, unearthed? The remains
seem to be of animal origin, but Tempe is shocked when she gets them to her
lab.
With help from a special detective friend, Tempe must
investigate a poignant and terrifying case that comes at the worst possible
moment. Daughter Katy has a new boyfriend who Tempe fears may have something
to hide. And important personal decisions face Tempe. Is it time for
emotional commitment? Will she have the chance to find out?
Everything must wait on the bones. What story do they tell?
Why are the X rays and DNA so perplexing? Who is trying to keep Tempe from
the answers? Someone is following her. Someone is following Katy. That
someone must be stopped before it's too late.
With the riveting authenticity that only world-class
forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs can bring to her fiction, Bare Bones asks important questions and thrills us to its pulsating end. Fresh from the
success of Grave Secrets, Reichs proves once again that she is the
consummate crime-writing star.
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Grave Secrets
(Scribner, July 2002)
On a summer morning in 1982, soldiers
enter a Guatemalan village and massacre its women and children. Terrified of
meeting a similar fate, returning relatives quickly bury their dead in
makeshift graves.
Today these families refer to their lost members as "the
disappeared, " and human rights teams are trying to find them. Dr.
Temperance Brennan, international forensic anthropologist, has been asked to
investigate one of the most heartbreaking cases of her career. As she digs
in the cold, damp soil, clues emerge: a hair clip, a tiny sneaker, the hip
bone of a child less than two years old.
Something savage happened in the
highlands two decades ago, and something savage is happening today. Four
girls are missing from Guatemala City, and the victims may be linked. An
American human rights investigator is murdered as Tempe listens to her
screams on the phone. Will Tempe be the next victim in a web of intrigue
that spans decades?
As she did in her earlier bestsellers,
Reichs has woven cutting-edge science throughout the novel -- from analysis
of fetal bone structure to septic tank chemistry.
Grave Secrets is gripping,
chillingly realistic, and showcases a queen of the genre at the top of her
game.
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Fatal Voyage
(Simon &
Schuster, July 2001)
Temperance
Brennan hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone
down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight
passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the
regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery
and identification.
Tempe has seen
death many times, working with the medical examiners in North Carolina and
Montreal, but never has tragedy struck with such devastation. She finds a
field of carnage: torsos in trees, limbs strewn among bursting suitcases and
smoldering debris. Many of the dead are members of a university soccer team.
Is Tempe's daughter, Katy, among them?
Frantic with
worry, Tempe joins colleagues from the FBI, the NTSB, and other agencies to
search for explanations. Was the plane brought down by a bomb, an insurance
plot, a political assassination, or simple mechanical failure? And what
about the prisoner on the plane who was being extradited to Canada? Did
someone want him silenced forever?
Even more
puzzling for Tempe is a disembodied foot found near the debris field.
Tempe's microscopic analysis suggests it could not have belonged to any
passenger. Whose foot is it, and where is the rest of the body? And what
about the disturbing evidence Tempe discovers in the soil outside a remote
mountain enclave? What secrets lie hidden there, and why are certain people
eager to stop Tempe's investigation? Is she learning too much? Coming too
close?
With help from
Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, who has his own sad reason for being at the
crash, and from a very special dog named Boyd, Tempe calls upon deep
reserves of courage and upon her forensic skill to uncover a shocking,
multilayered tale of deceit and depravity.
Written with
the riveting authenticity that only world-class forensic anthropologist
Kathy Reichs can provide, Fatal Voyage pairs witty, elegant prose
with pulse-pounding storytelling in a tour de force worthy of crime
writing's new superstar.
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Deadly Decisions
(Scribner, July
2000)
Nobody tells
a chilling story like international best-selling author Kathy Reichs,
whose "most valuable tool is her expertise...she's the real
thing" (New York Newsday). Drawing on her years as a top
forensic anthropologist, Reichs brings her cutting-edge scientific
know-how to this poignant, terrifying new tour de force.
Nine-year-old
Emily Anne Toussaint is shot dead on a Montreal street. A North Carolina
teenager disappears from her home and parts of what may be her skeleton
are found hundreds of miles away. For Dr. Temperance Brennan, a forensic
anthropologist in both Montreal and North Carolina, the deaths kindle deep
emotions that propel her on a harrowing journey into the world of outlaw
motorcycle gangs.
As a
scientist, Tempe should remain dispassionate. As a caring individual, she
yearns to take the killers off the streets. Emily Anne was cut down in a
biker crossfire. The North Carolina victim, Savannah Osprey, was last seen
hitching a ride with a transient biker. Tempe's nephew, Kit, is intrigued
by motorcycles. Does he understand the difference between legitimate
riders and gangs, or is he too mesmerized to comprehend that outlaw bikers
are big trouble?
With her
boss Pierre LaManche in the hospital, and her friend Andrew Ryan
disturbingly unavailable, Tempe begins a perilous investigation into a
culture where evil often wears a mask. From blood-splatter patterns and
ground-penetrating radar to bone-sample analysis, Deadly Décisions triumphantly combines the authenticity of a world-class forensic
professional with the narrative power of a brilliant new crime-writing
star. This richly nuanced thriller is sure to catapult a uniquely gifted
author to even greater heights.
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Death
du Jour
(Scribner, 1999)
Rarely has a first-time
novelist made such a spectacular international publishing debut as Kathy Reichs did with
her acclaimed forensic thriller Déjà Dead. A New York Times bestseller, a
number one bestseller in both Canada and Britain, and winner of the prestigious Ellis
Award for Best First Novel of 1997, it was also a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month
Club, with foreign rights sold to nineteen countries.
Now, in Death du Jour, the author who lives the life she writes about extends her reach while still building on
the rich ensemble cast, page-turning suspense, and cutting-edge forensic detail that made Déjà
Dead an international sensation.
Assaulted by the bitter cold
of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist
for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Élisabeth Nicolet, dead for
over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should be lying in her grave. A strange,
small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the
cloistered nun's fate.
The puzzle surrounding Sister
Élisabeth Nicolet's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a
burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise.
Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? And where are the
children?
Homicide Detective Andrew
Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From
the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial
sociologist, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island. Tempe is
overwhelmed by the case, confused by her mounting attraction to Ryan, and plagued by
worries about her sister Harry's search for spiritual awakening.
Featuring the kind of forensic
detail that only Kathy Reichs can provide -- from skeletal reconstruction to insect
analysis -- Death du Jour takes the reader on a riveting journey from the morgue to
the lab to the crime scene, from the warmth of a barrier island to the frigid cold of a
deadly ice storm. With this poignant and powerful work, Kathy Reichs confirms her status
as a brilliant new crime-writing star.
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Deja Dead
(Hardcover: Scribner, 1997)
(Paperback: Pocket Books, 1998)
(Audio: Simon & Schuster Audio, 1997)
A born storyteller, Dr. Kathy
Reichs walks in the steps of her heroine, Dr. Temperance Brennan. She spends her days in
the autopsy suite, the courtroom, the crime lab, with cops, and at exhumation sites. Often
her long days turn into harrowing nights.
It's June in Montreal, and
Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the
challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec,
looks forward to a relaxing weekend.
First, though, she must stop
at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and
decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in
the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe
must first identify the victim. Who is this person with the reddish hair and a small bone
structure?
First, though, she must stop
at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and
decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in
the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe
must first identify the victim. Who is this person with reddish hair and a small bone
structure? Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body
parts, the meticulous dismemberment. One case in particular comes to mind: the murder of
sixteen-year-old Chantale Trottier, who'd arrived in the morgue naked, less than a year
before, and packaged in plastic garbage bags. Tempe's convinced there are parallels
between the two cases, but it will take more victims to persuade her police colleagues.
Knowing there is a killer on the streets who may soon find a new victim, Tempe calls upon
all her forensic skills, including bone, tooth, and bite mark analysis and X-ray
microflourescence to try to prove that the cases are related and to stop the killer before
he strikes again. The next victim may be closer to home--Tempe's longtime friend Gabby,
her college-age daughter Katy, or Tempe herself.
Told with lacerating
authenticity and passion, Deja Dead is both poignant and terrifying as it hurtles
toward its page-turning conclusion and instantly catapults its author into the top ranks
of crime authors.
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