![]() She traveled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala and assisted with identifying remains found at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, among many other cases - sometimes at risk of her life. Kathy Reichs doesn’t have to extend far beyond personal experience to shock. “I don’t like cutting corners, or bending the truth about what is possible simply for shock value.” “I’m usually able to keep my novels both relevant and true to the science I use every day, which is important to me,” Kathy Reichs said. ![]() ![]() The “Virals” series follows the adventures of Tory Brennan, niece of Temperance Brennan, who discovers an unsolved murder and becomes infected by an experimental virus that gives her special powers described as “flaring.” Kathy Reichs said details in her books are drawn from her professional experiences with fascinating and often gruesome cases. ![]() ![]() Kathy Reichs, a practicing forensic anthropologist, writes crime novels about her literary alter-ego Temperance Brennan-the lead character in “Bones.” Now, in an unusual mother-son collaboration, both she and Brendan Reichs are co-writing the “Virals” series, the newest release of which, “Code,” they promoted at a Provo Library event on March 19. For Kathy Reichs, author and creator of the crime television series “Bones,” and her son Brendan Reichs, passion for writing runs, well, bone deep. ![]()
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