- Mayas in fiction, Forensic anthropology, Temperance Brennan (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
Investigating a massacre that took place in Guatemala in 1982, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan discovers that those events are linked to the disappearance of four girls from Guatemala City, as well as the murder of a human rights investigator.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Kathy Reichs
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- William Heinemann, BCA, Heinemann
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780434008407
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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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