Biographie de 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 Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty-six forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Executive Committee of 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 Northwester,. She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness at criminal trials. Kathy Reichs first novel, Déjà Dead, shot straight to number one on the Sunday Times Bestseller list and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. It became an international bestseller, as did its successor Death du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bone, and Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, is her eight novel featuring Temperance Brennan.