Temperance Brennan also features in three downloadable short stories.

The Bone Collection (2016) - A short story collection including First Bones (#0.5, a prequel to Déjà Dead), Bones in her Pocket (#15.5), Swamp Bones (#16.5) and Bones on Ice (#17.5).

Spider Bones (2010) (Also published as Mortal Remains).

Temperance Brennan also makes cameo appearances in Jasper Fforde's 2007 novel First Among Sequels and in Reichs' Virals series of novels. There are currently twenty one books in the series. She and her sometime lover Detective Andrew Ryan share a cockatiel named Charlie who remains in Montreal, while her husband's Chow cross dog Boyd is often left with her in Charlotte. Kit's daughter Tory Brennan features in the Virals series of novels written by Kathy with her son Brendan Reichs.īrennan's cat, Birdie, usually accompanies her on her journeys between Montreal and Charlotte. All three have featured in significant roles in the novels. Brennan's younger sister Harriet (known as Harry) has a son named Kit. She divides her time between teaching at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and advising on crime scenes, and spends about half of the year in each country.īrennan has a daughter, Katy, who initially is in college.

She then accepted a job at the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As the series unfolds the reader learns more about her past and her family connections.īefore the first novel, Brennan left her husband, Janis 'Pete' Peterson, and overcame a lifelong struggle with alcoholism as a result she usually drinks only Diet Coke, or an occasional Perrier water. Temperance 'Tempe' IPA: Brennan is a forensic anthropologist, who investigates human remains at crime scenes where the flesh is too degraded for a coroner to obtain evidence (victims of arson, mutilation, advanced decomposition, etc.).īrennan is a native of Chicago who grew up in the Carolinas and one of only fifty board-certified forensic anthropologists in North America.

In a number of novels it is indicated that Brennan's background lies in physical anthropology, rather than medicine, and throughout the novels she stresses the importance of correct crime scene process.ĭr.

Like her creator, Brennan is a forensic anthropologist.

All the novels are written in the first person, from Brennan's viewpoint. She was introduced in Reichs' first novel, Déjà Dead, which was published in 1997. Temperance Daessee Brennan is a fictional character created by author Kathy Reichs, and is the hero of her crime novel series (which are usually referred to as the Temperance Brennan novels). For the character in the TV series, Bones, see Temperance 'Bones' Brennan.

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