From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains,
to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal
lab, as one of only seventy-seven forensic anthropologists ever
certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Dr Kathy
Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her
mesmerising forensic thrillers. For years she consulted to the
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and
continues to do so for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et
de MUdecine LUgale for the province of QuUbec. Kathy Reichs has
travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and
helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at
JPAC she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II,
Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Kathy Reichs has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice
President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is
currently a member of the National Police Services Advisory Board
in Canada. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A native of Chicago,
she now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal.
Kathy Reichs's first novel DUjO Dead catapulted her to fame when it
became a New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller and
won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. All eleven of her
novels have been international bestsellers. She is also a producer
of the chilling hit TV series Bones. She has written seventeen
bestsellers featuring Dr Temperance Brennan, the most recent being
Bones Never Lie. She has also written four bestsellers featuring
Tory Brennan- Virals, Seizure, Code and Exposure.
"Full of violence and clever dialogue."
*The Times*
"Reichs is the ultimate crime writer! Tight plots, thrilling
suspense scenes and convincing characters make her books the
ultimate gripping read, and Two Nights does not disappoint."
*My Weekly*
"A full throttle ride."
*Peterborough Evening Telegraph*
"The pace is fast, in a plot that takes in cults, the loss of
family and a domestic terrorism plot."
*Economica*
"well-plotted, slick thriller"
*Crime Review*
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