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Kathy Reichs (www.kathyreichs.com) is a forensic anthropologist, like her character Temperance Brennan, and creator of the Fox television hit Bones, now in its fifth season. In addition to Virals and Seizure, Reichs has written twelve books in the Temperance Brennan series, all New York Times bestsellers, including #1. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Reichs mulled over those experiences for about seven years before deciding to apply her ideas to fiction. Out came Déjà Dead in 1997, introducing mystery fans to a new but, more likely than not, recognizable heroine: forensics expert Temperance Brennan, a fortyish, recovering alcoholic on the run from a wobbling marriage. Brennan—a sort of mix between Nancy Drew and Quincy—is also something of a hothead, prone to marching off on her own when she runs afoul of a sexist male cop. This is the kind of woman who would sit down to brunch with Vic Warshawski, Kay Scarpetta, or Jane Tennison, if any of them did brunch.
As a forensic anthropologist for the state of North Carolina, as well as the province of Québec, Reichs draws heavily from her own experiences standing over the autopsy table. Her novels—Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Grave Secrets and the like—are packed with the kind of well informed clinical details that make critics take notice. "The doctor clearly knows a hawk from a handsaw," wrote The New York Times about one of her books.
She also built some parallels to her own biography when creating Tempe Brennan. Both women are forensic anthropologists with the unlikely dual addresses of North Carolina and Canada. But Reichs rolls her eyes when asked about the comparisons. "Personally, she's completely her own person," Reichs told USA Today in 1997. "She gets physically involved. She takes risks I've never been tempted to take."
Reichs was editing forensics textbooks when she began toying with writing a novel. The initial result, she said, was a dud: slow, boring, and in the third person. But it picked up steam when she came up with the Brennan character. Inspired by friend and medical examiner Bill Maples, author of Dead Men Do Tell Tales, she sat down to write, meticulously drafting an outline of her story and getting up early to write before teaching classes at the University of North Carolina. It took her two years.
The effort paid off when her manuscript made the rounds of the Frankfurt Book Fair. A heated auction won Reichs a million-dollar, two-book deal.
Critics and readers alike loved Tempe. Wrote the Library Journal, "Despite her ability to work among fetid, putrefying smells that 'leap out and grab' and her 'go-to-hell attitude' with seasoned cops, Tempe is as vulnerable as a soft Carolina morning." And People magazine said, "Reichs not only serves up a delicious plot, she also brings a new recipe to hard-boiled cop talk."
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. But then she'll confess her true idea of a waking nightmare. "[My] idea of horror would be to sit in a little gray office all day and add up columns of numbers," she told USA Today. "I say to people, 'How do you do that?"'
One of the reasons she is Québec's forensics anthropologist is because she is one of the few in the profession who is fluent in French.
Among her favorite books are the science fiction series the Hitchhiker's Guide Douglas Adams. "It's one of the few things I re-read because it's just nothing to do with anything I do," she has said.
She avoided college literature courses to concentrate on science.
In 2005, Fox TV launched Bones, a forensics/police procedural inspired by Reichs's life and writing. In a neat twist, the main character, Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist who, as a sideline, writes thrillers about a fictional anthropologist named Kathy Reichs!
Kathy's daughter, Kerry Reichs, made her literary debut in 2008 with the romantic comedy The Best Day of Someone Else's Life.
Anonymous
Posted December 11, 2011
This book was fantastic! I thought that this series is a mixture of nancy drew and maximum ride(2 book series i grew up on). This is a must read book. Its characcters are really interesting. Torry brennan is the protaginist and leader. Once i got my hands on this book i couldnt put it down. If you like scifi youll love this book. Even if you dont like scifi youll love it.
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Posted December 1, 2011
I loved this book along with Kathy Reichs first book in the Viral series, it was extremely well written, the characters were very defined and there was a great plot. I also loved the plash of culture added with the book of kells, fantastic!
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Posted October 23, 2011
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This was a great weekend read. I couldn't put it down
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Posted April 10, 2012
I loved this book. The characters are so realistic and are very well developed. I hope that the next book well be just as good. Sometimes authors know that peolpe will read their books so the just pump out the book in a hurry to make money but this book wasn't like that. The only thing that I did not like was that the first few chapters sorta reviews what happened in the 1st book. But hey, it is rare when an author writes a sequal that is almost better than the original. The call was close but in my opinion Virals is better.
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Posted March 18, 2012
I loved this book! More please.
Btw, I still think Tory and Ben should've started dating. Just my opinion.
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Posted January 28, 2012
Creative and entertaining! Young adults as well as adult Kathy Reichs fans won't be disappointed. Gripping, inventive, fun!
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Posted January 9, 2012
This book tells you all about what happens to the pavk after their first advenjer. This story is about when the pack is trying to save their parents jobs and their friendship.
They stumble apone a crazy way to that. They try to find a pirets treaser.
If you love to read then you will love this book just like i do. If you like action you will have to read this book.
CAS ;)
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Posted January 2, 2012
This book is JUST right for teenagers! I loved it!!
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Posted November 29, 2011
I cant wait for the next book! These r awesome! I wanna here more from torry brennan!!!
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Loved the story line in this book. The first book was good but this was much better in my opinion. Thoroughly enjoy her books.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Read it! It was amazing! I read it in less than two day I couldn't put it down!
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Posted August 22, 2011
It comes out october 18
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Posted May 24, 2012
I must kniw i read the first book and lived it i am finding the secound. But i vant find tge third if there is one....
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Posted May 15, 2012
Im reading the first one!!!!
Ohh and my user name is lovertoreview
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Posted May 13, 2012
I read Virals a while ago and checked this book out from the library as soon as it came out. The suspense is amazing and Kathy Reichs keeps the characters' personalities strong throughout the novel. I think this book was great and I can't wait for Code to come out later this year.
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Posted May 9, 2012
Okay, all i really wanna k is: DOES TORRI END UP WITH BEN (the guy that she hung out with a lot in Virals) ???????? i always wanted togetherXD so Plz plz PLZ PLZ PLZ!!!!!! SOME ONE TELL ME PLZ!!!!!! THXS
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Posted May 2, 2012
I read the first book and this one and they were so good i was really sad when they ended i hope theres another in the series.
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Posted March 31, 2012
THIS BOOK IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD! THE CHARACTERS ARE SO FUN! PLEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEE MAKE MORE OR I WILL DIE, THIS BOOK IS THAT GOOD! FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY! EVEYONE WILL LOOOOOVE THIS BOOK! READ IT, READ IT , READ IT, READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted March 14, 2012
This book is AMAZING!!!!!!!!! I was so nervous about Tory when...oops, did I give anything away?
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Posted February 23, 2012
this book is really good, better than the first. read. the. book. please. UR DREAMS WILL COME TRUE! (not really but its a good book)
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Overview
The second novel in the Virals trilogy from #1 bestselling author and inspiration for the TV series Bones - Kathy Reichs!Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular kids into a crime-solving pack! But now the very place that brought them together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out of funding and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can figure out a way to save it!
So when Tory learns of an old Charleston legend about a famous she-pirate, Anne Bonney, ...