Mystery Books

  • Shall We Tell the President?

    After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane’s has finally become the first woman pres

  • In Their Footsteps

    Gripping romantic suspense from a NY Times best-selling author - The quiet scandal surrounding her parents’ deaths has a

  • Oh Danny Boy (Molly Murphy Mysteries)

    Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less…exciting. Molly has had qu

  • Wilderness

    "A novel of violence, crisp dialogue, and suspense . . . the reader is immediately caught up in the ambience of danger." -- The

  • Worst Fears Realized (Stone Barrington)

    Not a man to dwell on the past, Stone Barrington has no choice but to rattle old skeletons when the people closest to him start

  • Pictures of Perfection (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)

    Reginald Hill's ironic humor, polished prose, and keen insight have placed him squarely alongside such great mystery writers as P.

  • Rats

    It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black cr

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Kathy Reichs biography

 

 

Kathy Reichs

(1950 - )

Kathleen Joan Toelle "Kathy" Reichs ( /?ra?ks/;[2] born 1950 in Chicago) is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic

In addition to technical books, Reichs has written thirteen novels to date, which have been translated into 30 languages.[7] Her first novel, Déjà Dead, won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.[8] The fictional heroine in her novels, Temperance "Tempe" Brennan, is also a forensic anthropologist. Her lifestyle closely mimics that of her creator

A good portion of the novels are based on real life science, and Reichs has stated that she is "fastidiously conscientious about getting the science right".[11] She has used experience from her career in her novels, and said about Déjà Dead that "Everything I describe in the book, I actually did"

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