- Forensic anthropology, Temperance Brennan (Fictitious character), Medical examiners (Law), Arson investigation
"Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should be lying in her grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Kathy Reichs
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- BCA, blanvalet, Heinemann
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, French, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780099255192
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Dr. Kathleen Joan Reichs (PhD) (née Toelle, born July 7, 1948) is an American crime writer, academic and forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on 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 Northwestern. She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal
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