Kathy Reichs

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Kathy Reichs (2012)

Kathleen Joan "Kathy" Reichs (born July 7, 1948 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American anthropologist and writer .

Life

Kathy Reichs at a book signing, November 2010

Kathy Reichs grew up in Chicago with three sisters. Her mother was a musician in the city's symphony orchestra, her father managing director.

Empire lives in Charlotte ( North Carolina ) and Montreal ( Canada ). Among other things, she studied archeology and is now one of only 88 forensic anthropologists approved by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology . She works for the Office of the Medical Examiner in North Carolina and for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale in Montréal. She is also a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte worked and lectured at the Academy of the FBI in Quantico ( Virginia ). Reichs has published numerous scientific papers.

As a member of a state disaster task force, she was involved in identifying the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. On behalf of the United Nations , she also helped to clarify the identity of bodies exhumed from mass graves in Rwanda and Guatemala .

In 1997, Reich's first crime novel Déjà Dead appeared , which was not published in German translation the following year under the title Dead lies . For this work, the author received the " Arthur Ellis Award " from the Crime Writers of Canada in 1998 for best first publication.

Reichs keeps her private life largely secret from the public. At the age of 19 she married the examining magistrate Paul Reichs in 1968, with whom she has two daughters and a son.

The character Temperance Brennan

The Temperance Brennan Novels

Reichs has incorporated her professional experience into a number of internationally successful crime novels . In her books, the first-person narrator , a forensic anthropologist named Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan , complicated murders. The early to mid-40s is in mortal danger again and again. Just like the author herself, the fictional character constantly commutes between North Carolina and Québec. She also works at the same institutes as her creator. Reichs emphasizes, however, that despite many similarities , Temperance Brennan should not be regarded as her alter ego .

The minor characters that recur in Reich's stories include Dr. Brennan's daughter Katy , her sister Harriet ("Harry") and her husband Pete , from whom she has been separated for several years. The heroine of the novel is sometimes more, sometimes less closely connected with the attractive Canadian Lieutenant-Détective Andrew Ryan . She often has a tense relationship with her male colleagues and superiors. Above all, the Canadian police investigator Luc Claudel , who is skeptical of the scientific methods of crime investigation , repeatedly manages to incur the wrath of the heroine.

The cases that Temperance Brennan has to deal with in the novels , which are mainly based on Reich's professional practice , are primarily characterized by particularly gruesome murders. Occasionally even small children are among the victims, who have been trimmed beyond recognition, of which mostly only individual body parts are found. The perpetrators are often psychopaths who act for no reason or as part of obscure rituals .

In addition, Dr. Brennan occasionally on archaeological bone finds. This is especially true for the 2005 published novel thought dead live longer , which with clear parallels to Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code a special position occupied within Empire novels and heroine on the trail of a 2,000 year-old mystery of Israel leads. This novel also refers to the theses that James Tabor thematized in his work "The Jesus Dynasty".

The forensic medical examinations are described in detail and scientifically sober by Reichs. Since some of the stories take place in the French-speaking part of Canada, the author often uses individual French expressions or sentences. This also applies to many of the titles of her novels.

Temperance Brennan as a television character

On September 13, 2005, the US television station FOX started the television series " Bones - Die Bonejägerin " ( English original title: Bones ), which is produced in collaboration with Kathy Reichs. It is not a film adaptation of her novels. The series shows parallels in terms of content and form to the US television series " CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators ".

Only a few motifs were taken from the book, including the character of Dr. Temperance Brennan (portrayed by US actress Emily Deschanel ). Brennan, nicknamed Bones , works in the series for a laboratory at the Jeffersonian Institution . She is part of a six-person team of investigators.

The main character of the series is not only significantly younger than the Dr. Brennan in Reich's books, but also shows many character and biographical differences from her. However, what it has in common with its creator is that she writes novels in her free time. Heroine of her books: A forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs . Reality and literary levels are completely mixed in that Reichs (as a character in the series created by Brennan) has a partner by her side called "Andy" (Lieutenant-Détective Andrew Ryan from the novels of the "real" Kathy Reichs).

bibliography

Temperance Brennan novels

  1. Déjà Dead (1997), German dead people don't lie (1998)
  2. Death du Jour (1999), German hard work (1999)
  3. Deadly Décisions (2000), German Let Bones Speak (2001)
  4. Fatal Voyage (2001), German through Mark and Bone (2002)
  5. Grave Secrets (2002), German bone harvest (2003)
  6. Bare Bones (2003), German with skin and hair (2004)
  7. Monday Mourning (2004), German Death Monday (2004)
  8. Cross Bones (2005), German people believed dead live longer (2005)
  9. Break no Bones (2006), German head over heels (2006)
  10. Bones to Ashes (2007), German Bones to Ashes (2007)
  11. Devil Bones (2008), German death comes as a call (2008)
  12. 206 Bones (2009), German The grave is only the beginning (2009)
  13. Spider Bones (2010), German Blood Doesn't Forget (2010)
  14. Flash and Bones (2011), German Drive to Hell (2011)
  15. Bones Are Forever (2012), German Bone Hunt (2012)
  16. Bones of the Lost (2013), German death benefit . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-89667-452-4 .
  17. Bones Never Lie (2014), bones never lie . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-89667-453-1 .
  18. Speaking in Bones (2015), German The language of bones . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 3896674544 .
  19. The Bone Collection (2016) . Four cases for Tempe Brennan. Blessing Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-896-67580-4 .
  20. A Conspiracy of Bones (2020). The face of evil . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-89667-455-5 .

Viral novels

  1. Virals (2010), German Virals - the dead can no longer talk (2011)
  2. Seizure (2011), German Virals - Only the dead know the truth (2012)
  3. Code (2013), German Virals - Every Dead Keeps a Secret (2013), ISBN 978-3-570-15367-3
  4. Exposure (2014)
  5. Terminal (2015)

Sunday Night series

  1. Two Nights (2017), German blood shadow . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-896-67621-4 .

Audio books

  • 2003: Bone Reading , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 3-89830-479-5 , abbreviated, 4 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann , 312 min.
  • 2004: With skin and hair , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3898306706 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 420 min
  • 2005: Dead Monday , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 3-89830-919-3 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 339 min.
  • 2006: Through Mark und Bein , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86604-215-5 , abbreviated, 5 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 377 min.
  • 2006: People believed dead live longer , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866040830 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 383 min.
  • 2007: Bones to Ashes , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866047082 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Katja Riemann , 427 min.
  • 2007: Head over heels , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866044470 , 6 CDs read by Gesine Cukrowski , 448 min.
  • 2008: Death comes as if called , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866048942 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Katja Riemann, 446 min.
  • 2009: The grave is just the beginning , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3837102222 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Simone Thomalla , 419 min.
  • 2010: Blood does not forget , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3837103960 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 420 min.
  • 2011: Virals , Random House Audio Köln, ISBN 978-3837107753 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Anna Thalbach , 415 min.
  • 2011: Fahr zur Hölle , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3837109696 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Ranja Bonalana , 420 min.
  • 2011: hard work , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-1083-8 , unabridged, eAudio read by Ranja Bonalana, 833 min.
  • 2012: Dead don't lie , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-1163-7 , abbreviated, eAudio read by Ranja Bonalana, 468 min.
  • 2012: Hard work , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-1163-7 , abbreviated, eAudio read by Ranja Bonalana, 423 min.
  • 2012: Let bones speak , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-1163-7 , abbreviated, eAudio read by Ranja Bonalana, 467 min.
  • 2012: Bone Hunt , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-1800-1 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Simone Thomalla, 423 min.
  • 2013: Totengeld , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3837121872 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Britta Steffenhagen, 415 min.
  • 2015: Bones never lie Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-2670-9 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Britta Steffenhagen, 450 min.
  • 2016: The language of bones, Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-3158-1 , abbreviated, 6 CDs read by Britta Steffenhagen, 453 min.

Web links

Commons : Kathy Reichs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathleen J. Reichs Biography - life, family, children, story, mother, son, book, old, born, college - Newsmakers Cumulation. Retrieved April 27, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ www.theabfa.org: The American Board of Forensic Anthropology . ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed November 13, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theabfa.org
  3. ↑ www.stopyourekillingme.com
  4. ↑ Kathleen J. Reichs Biography - life, family, children, story, mother, son, book, old, born, college - Newsmakers Cumulation. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Reichs, Kathy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichs, Kathleen Joan (full name); Toelle, Kathleen Joan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist and crime novelist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States