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  Kathy Reichs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kathleen Joan "Kathy" Reichs is native to Chicago and works as a forensic anthropologist, an academic, and bestselling writer of mystery novels.
Most of the techniques used and technology mentioned are things that Kathy Reichs uses in her real life job.
Reichs has said herself that she ddin't want her character to be perfect and chose to give Temperance some history.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kathy_Reichs   (679 words)

  
 BookPage Interview
In fact, Reichs is probably at least as capable and tough-minded as her appealing fictional heroine, Temperance "Tempe" Brennan.
Hired for the provincial post partly because she is one of the few certified forensic anthropologists who also speaks French, Reichs makes brilliant use of the neighborhoods of Montreal as a backdrop for the action of the book.
Reichs herself is most proud of her descriptions of the autopsy and investigative procedures Tempe uses to pursue the elusive serial killer.
www.bookpage.com /9709bp/firstperson1.html   (1047 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Deadly Decisions: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kathy Reichs' forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is arguably the best of the current crop of thriller pathologists; her third outing, Deadly Decisions, pits her reconstructive skills against a bunch of Hell's Angels with a taste for ultra-violence.
Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec, Canada.
Reichs writes Brennan as a classy professional who has overcome a drinking problem in her past, and though widely respected in her field, has at best a respectful relationship with the stuffy French detective named Claudel she often works with.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099307103   (1131 words)

  
 Kathy Reichs Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
Kathy Reichs is one of the major figures in this new wave.
Reichs now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.
In her signature gripping style, Kathy Reichs explores the intriguing science of forensic anthropology that fuels the art of her crime writing.
www.thelavinagency.com /college/kathyreichs.html   (440 words)

  
 Kathy Reichs Biography
Kathy Reichs is one the stars of the forensic science genre.
As well as writing fiction, Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale in Quebec.
"Away from the book tours, she [Reichs] may be found up to her elbows in putrefying remains, trudging through mass graves of murdered women and their young children slaughtered by death squads in Guatemala, unearthing Second World War victims or sifting through the rubble of Ground Zero, separating animal bones from human remains....
www.biogs.com /bones/reichs.html   (303 words)

  
 September 2002
Like her heroine, Dr. Temperance Brennan, Kathy Reichs is, in real life, a forensic anthropologist at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and a consultant for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciares et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec.
It was Kathy Reichs’ first hand experience at excavating the mass graves of the "disappeared" in Guatemala—the nameless victims of that country’s long, brutal and bloody civil war—that gave her the inspiration for the present volume.
Kathy Reichs’ fifth Tempe Brennan novel is, as the back-cover blurbs claim, a thrilling page-turner.
www.uwlax.edu /mvac/newsreviews/BookReview/GraveSecrets.htm   (381 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Living - Books - Death is a way of life for Kathy
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs peers through the glass cabinet to inspect the long-dead remains a little closer.
That novel is still a work in progress - Kathy's hectic schedule as forensic anthropologist working for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale in Quebec, is juggled alongside international book appearances and work on an eagerly awaited TV series, Bones.
Originally trained as an archaeologist, Kathy almost fell into her forensic anthropologist's role when murder investigators in North Carolina sought her help analysing the skeleton of a five-year-old girl.
living.scotsman.com /books.cfm?id=1695132005   (1456 words)

  
 Home Page for Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs is 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.
www.literati.net /Reichs   (127 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciares et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec.
She is one of only sixty-eight forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and formerly sat on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Kathy Reichs, author of four previous thrillers featuring her fictional counterpart, Dr. Temperance Brennan, has written a heart-wrenching fifth novel, GRAVE SECRETS.
www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-reichs-kathy.asp   (1989 words)

  
 GRAVE SECRETS by Kathy Reichs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reichs’ latest novel finds Tempe Brennan, forensic anthropologist, in Guatemala, investigating a war crime twenty years old.
Reichs includes the usual elements, such as Tempe’s on-off relationship with Andrew Ryan, her clashes with a Montreal police detective and many more.
Reichs describes the area in depth and with skill.
www.murderexpress.net /reviews/gravesecrets.htm   (147 words)

  
 Kathy Reichs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Like her leading character Dr Brennan, Kathy Reichs has to not only function but excel in the masculine world of law enforcement.
Kathy Reichs is often called upon to be an expert witness in criminal trials and it is her testimony which can sometimes make the difference between getting a conviction and not.
She recently made a trip to Tanzania and Rwanda where she was part of a team gathering evidence against those accused of genocide in the region.
www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/kathyreichs.html   (1500 words)

  
 Simply Audiobooks - Kathy Reichs Bio
Reichs mulled over those experiences for about seven years before deciding to apply her ideas to fiction.
Reichs was editing forensics textbooks when she began toying with writing a novel.
Over chicken salad lunches with newspaper reporters, Reichs will casually talk about dismembered bodies, maggots, and concerns for her children's security in light of some of the unsavory characters she'd testified against.
www.simplyaudiobooks.com /audio-books-author-bio/Kathy+Reichs/523   (544 words)

  
 Books by Kathy Reichs
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.
With this poignant and powerful work, Kathy Reichs confirms her status as a brilliant new crime-writing star.
A born storyteller, Dr. Kathy Reichs walks in the steps of her heroine, Dr. Temperance Brennan.
literati.net /Reichs/ReichsBooks.htm   (1855 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bare Bones : A Novel: Books: Kathy Reichs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet.
Reichs has built a reputation on cut-to-the-chase writing and swift plotting, and this latest effort delivers everything her fans have come to expect.
Kathy Reichs tells a story that is both poignant and intense, revealing facts that lead to a strange "fl market" that is rarely discussed.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074345300X?v=glance   (2231 words)

  
 Kathy Reich, Author of the Month at MyShelf.Com
Kathy, Montreal, and Me In 1998 I was employed by a company in downtown Montreal and had to take the metro to get to work.
For example, back in 1990 when Reichs received a call from the Catholic archdiocese in Quebec and was asked to examine the remains of a nun; another set of bones.
This book is filled with rich details of the cutting edge forensic techniques that Kathy Reichs uses in her real life work, that’s why the forensic details are so gruesome.
www.myshelf.com /aom/01/reichs.html   (1320 words)

  
 Kathy Reichs page featuring Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropolgist
Forensic anthropology is fascinating, and Reichs uses the mechanics of it, and how they use the science to re-create crimes and piece together clues to solve the mystery.
Kathy Reichs is herself a forensic anthropologist who works part time in Quebec (and part time in North Carolina).
Reichs divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.
mostlyfiction.com /sleuths/reichs.htm   (898 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Death du Jour: Books: Kathy Reichs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
While Reichs books may be based on real events, and I am sure she is a good nonfiction writer, she does not write fiction very well.
Reichs character Tempe Brennan attempts to do this but even when she sits in front of her fire place she's nervous and twitchy and something is always happening, from break-ins to fires.
Dr Reichs is a forensic anthropologist trained at Northwestern University and employed by both the state of North Carolina and the Province of Quebec as an expert in forensics and by the University of North Carolina as a professor of anthropology.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671011375?v=glance   (2523 words)

  
 Kathy Reichs books reviews
Kathy Reichs' Temperance "Tempe" Brennan is a forensic anthropologist in a series of novels written by Reichs.
Reichs really draws on her anthropology to bring out the mystery clues behind the novel.
Kathy Reichs 5/3/2006 11:58:18 PM Talk about the novels, online ebooks, audio books (audiobooks on cd), new and used books that Reichs has written!
www.allreaders.com /Topics/Topic_122.asp   (630 words)

  
 FATAL VOYAGE by Kathy Reichs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kathy Reichs has often suffered from the problem of including much too much forensic detail in her novels.
However, this is not the case here, as Reichs has taken Brennan out of her natural environment, where she no longer has the upper hand.
The plot is interesting and when Reichs finally tied all the plot strands together, I still really had no idea what was going on.
www.murderexpress.net /reviews/fatalvoyage.htm   (280 words)

  
 THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fans of Reich’s novels have come to expect lots of technical detail about forensics and its related fields, and they won’t be disappointed here.
Reichs certainly knows her stuff, and she teaches us all sorts of fascinating things.
I don’t mean to sound overly critical, but if Reichs could somehow manage to sharpen her narrative skills, bring them in line with her excellent plotting abilities, she’d produce a novel that was truly great.
www.themysteryreader.com /reichs-grave.html   (243 words)

  
 Random House secures five book deal for Kathy Reichs - book2book forums
With ‘Brennan’, a proposed TV series from 20th Century Fox Television featuring Reichs’ heroine and co-produced by Reichs herself, likely to appear on US TV screens in September 2005 both Tempe and her creator are set for even greater success.
Random House have been Kathy’s publisher since Deja Dead, her first novel, went straight to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list (it was only the seventh novel ever to do so).
Kathy is one of CHA’s superstars and it’s wonderful that she has given us such a vote of confidence.’
forums.booktrade.info /showthread.php?t=198   (366 words)

  
 IWJ Blog: Kathy Reichs Heads to Television Land
Of course, mystery lovers know that the joke is that Kathy Reichs is the real-life author who writes bestsellers starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
But like their plots, the story lines for Bones are grounded in her expertise in a field that specializes in identifying remains so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that standard identification methods are useless.
Kathy Reichs' eighth novel, Cross Bones (Scribner) is currently perched on all the bestseller lists.
www.internetwritingjournal.com /cgi-bin/iwjblog.pl?id=727051   (233 words)

  
 Alibris: Kathy Reichs
Bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Reichs pens a tale set in Montreal, North Carolina, and Israel, where a murder in the present leads to a controversial discovery in biblical archaelogy that will have vast implications for the Judeo-Christian world.
From the crime scene to the morgue to the lab, Tempe Brennan uses her considerable forensic skills to probe a mystery that begins with horrifying deaths in a fire in Quebec, leads her to the Carolinas, then to Montreal.
"Reichs is coming on strong", says the New York Daily News of author Kathy Reichs whose bestsellers Deja Dead and Death du Jour have been main selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Literary Guild, translated into more than twenty languages, and sold to television for a major series.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Reichs,Kathy   (1018 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Kathy Reichs - Books: Meet the Writers
Kathy Reichs burst onto the fiction scene in the late 1990s with her first novel, Déjà Dead, a thriller rooted in an expert knowledge of science and medicine and powered by a strong female protagonist, Temperance Brennan.
Since then, Reichs has been a regular feature on bestseller lists and is often mentioned in the same breath as the chief of the autopsy whodunit, Patricia Cornwell.
When students at the archaeological field school where Temperance Brennan is teaching unearth remains that are rather more recent than they had expected, she has to get involved - even if it does mean that her estranged husband gets shot.
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=968798   (314 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Monday Mourning : A Novel: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
What's best about Reichs, and often unappreciated in reviews, is not the informative detail that she brings to Tempe's forensic sleuthing, though that's certainly engrossing.
I quite liked Kathy Reichs' other books--the plots are usually nicely complex, and she is absolutely at her best when she has Tempe unravel the mysteries using forensic anthropology.
I'm eagerly awaiting the next Kathy Reichs book and hoping it will be done with more time, effort and attention to detail--like her other books.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/074353641X   (982 words)

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