athy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire de 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 Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina–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 and is a frequent expert witness at criminal trials. Her first novel,Déjà Dead, brought Dr. Reichs fame when it became aNew York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel.Death du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, andGrave Secrets also became international andNew York Times bestsellers.Bare Bones is her sixth novel featuring Temperance Brennan.