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Grave
Secrets - Kathy Reichs
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 heart-breaking 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.
Fatal
Voyage - Kathy Reichs
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.Bare
Bones - Kathy ReichsIt'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.
About the Author Kathy Reichs
(From Wikipedia) Kathleen J. "Kathy" Reichs is a forensic anthropologist, an academic, and bestselling writer of mystery novels, who works in the United States and Canada. She is a Professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She divides her time between work 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. Her schedule also involves a number of speaking engagements around the world.
She received a B.A. in anthropology from American University in 1972, a M.A. in physical anthropology from Northwestern University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in physical anthropology from Northwestern University in 1975. She has taught at Northern Illinois University, University of Pittsburgh, Concordia University, and McGill University.
She has appeared in Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide. She has assisted Dr. Clive Snow in an exhumation in the area of Lake Atitlan in the highlands of southwest Guatemala. She was a member of the DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Teams) team to assist at the World Trade Center disaster.
Books
Kathy Reichs has written novels as well as technical books on anthropology and forensics. Her novels have been translated in 30 languages. Her first novel 'Déjà Dead' won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
The fictional heroine in her novels, Temperance Brennan, is also a forensic anthropologist. Her lifestyle closely mimics that of her creator. A good portion of the novels is based on real life science. Most of the techniques used and technology mentioned are things that Kathy Reichs uses in her real life job. The blood spatter analysis used in Deadly Decisions for instance, is directly from her job. In the novel Grave Secrets she uses her experience from her visit to Guatemala to enhance the story.
Temperance Brennan series
* Déjà Dead (1997)
* Death du Jour (1999)
* Deadly Decisions (2000)
* Fatal Voyage (2001)
* Grave Secrets (2002)
* Bare Bones (2003)
* Monday Mourning (2004)
* Cross Bones (2005)
* Break No Bones (2006)
Academic Papers
* Quantified comparison of frontal sinus patterns by means of computed tomography. Forensic Science International 1993 Oct;61(2-3):141-68.
* Effect of age and osteoarthritis on bone mineral in rhesus monkey vertebrae. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 1993 Aug;8(8):909-17.
* Forensic anthropology in the 1990s. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 1992 Jun;13(2):146-53.
* Treponematosis: a possible case from the late prehistoric of North Carolina. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1989 Jul;79(3):289-303.
* Cranial suture eccentricities: a case in which precocious closure complicated determination of sex and commingling. Journal of Forensic Science 1989 Jan;34(1):263-73.
* Ontogenetic plasticity in nonhuman primates: I. Secular trends in the Cayo Santiago macaques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1987 Jul;73(3):279-87.
Academic Books
* Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains (1986)
Television
In 2005, a television series based on Reichs premiered, titled Bones. The lead character is a forensic anthropologist named Temperance Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel) who moonlights as an author, writing about a fictional (in her world) forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
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