Kathy Reichs Books in Order

In Charlotte, small animals begin turning up mutilated and posed in eerie displays, then the violence escalates to human victims. As Tempe works with forensic veterinarians and local police, she tracks a killer obsessed with suffering and forces herself to confront what evil really means.

Called to Washington, DC, after a townhouse fire yields charred remains, Tempe uncovers links between the victim and a long defunct Prohibition era gang. Teaming up with reporter Ivy Doyle, she follows a trail from Foggy Bottom history to present day arson and revenge.

Asked to examine a man apparently killed by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo from the remains to the Turks and Caicos Islands. There she links the case to missing young male tourists and a tech driven scheme with implications far beyond the Caribbean.

Back home in North Carolina, Tempe receives a box on her porch containing a freshly removed human eyeball etched with coordinates. A series of murders staged to mimic her old cases follows, and when her daughter vanishes, the investigation turns agonizingly personal.

A storm washes a medical-waste container onto a South Carolina beach, holding two decomposed bodies wrapped and wired in plastic. Tempe recognizes details from an old Quebec cold case, just as a flesh-eating bacterial outbreak erupts, forcing her to probe how genetics and murder intersect.

When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is suspected of killing a troublesome reporter, she needs help from outside her world. Jack Reacher steps in, and together they race to clear her name and unmask the real killer before anyone else dies.

Still recovering from brain surgery and doubting her own perceptions, Tempe begins receiving anonymous texts showing a faceless corpse. Blocked by a hostile new boss and nagging migraines, she quietly investigates, linking the dead man to a long-missing child and a dangerous fringe network.

Sunday Night, a scarred ex Marine and former cop living off the grid, is hired to find a girl who vanished after a bombing at a Hebrew school. Tracking a violent cult from Chicago to California, she is forced to confront the trauma she has tried to bury.

This companion volume collects four Virals stories, following Tory and her pack through early adventures, a high-tech robbery at LIRI, a Comic Con heist, and a sabotaged wedding. It fills in key moments between the novels and shows how the pack grows into its powers.

This collection gathers four Temperance Brennan novellas, including the story of her very first case, plus investigations set in the Florida Everglades, the North Carolina foothills, and on Mount Everest. It is a compact way to sample Tempe’s world between the full length novels.

On the day of Kit and Whitney’s Charleston wedding, small disasters escalate into something more sinister. Tory and the Virals uncover a plot to sabotage the ceremony with doctored cake and structural tampering, forcing them to protect their family without revealing their secret.

A rival pack of red-eyed Virals calling themselves Trinity emerges, created by a more dangerous version of the virus. As government interest sharpens and infection spreads, Tory and her friends face an all-out confrontation that could cost them their freedom or their lives.

A passionate web sleuth arrives with a chilling audio file of a girl being tormented and a theory that one of Tempe’s unidentified skeletons is missing teenager Cora Teague. The trail leads into the Blue Ridge backwoods, a secretive religious sect, and a string of hidden graves.

Years after a climber disappeared on Mount Everest, an earthquake dislodges a frozen corpse from the death zone. Tempe is hired to confirm the identity for a wealthy Charlotte family, but signs of foul play on the mountain suggest the expedition was hiding the truth.

Visiting a friend who studies invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades, Tempe helps dissect an eighteen foot snake and finds unmistakably human bones inside. The grisly discovery pulls her into a wetlands murder case where both predators and people are deadly.

When twin classmates vanish from their prep school and Tory’s best friend also disappears, the Virals suspect a predator is at work in Charleston. As their powers grow erratic and public scrutiny tightens, they must balance pack loyalty against the risk of being exposed.

DNA from new child murders matches Anique Pomerleau, a sadistic killer Tempe and Andrew Ryan once failed to catch. Drawn into cold cases from Vermont to North Carolina, Tempe must pull Ryan out of exile and confront both a ruthless predator and her own past mistakes.

At Comic Con with Aunt Tempe, the Virals witness the brazen theft of a priceless Terminator prop. Amid costumes, staged battles, and obsessive fans, they follow subtle clues through the convention halls to unmask a thief who thinks a packed crowd guarantees escape.

During a break in at the Loggerhead Island Research Institute, valuable equipment vanishes with no clear way off the island. Determined to beat visiting aunt Temperance Brennan to the solution, Tory and her friends investigate a locked-room style theft using both brains and flaring.

A geocache game lures the Virals into a high-stakes puzzle created by a shadowy figure called the Gamemaster. When one cache hides a fake bomb and a threat of a real explosion to come, the pack must decode the clues while questioning whom they can trust.

A teenage girl is run down on a lonely North Carolina highway, and Tempe sees evidence of far more than a hit and run. As she investigates Peruvian dog mummies for Customs and worries over daughter Katy’s deployment, she stumbles into a deadly human-trafficking network.

A canvas bag surfaces in Mountain Island Lake, holding the decomposed body of a young woman and a small cache of animal bones. Tempe and detective Skinny Slidell trace the victim to an artist colony, where eco activism, obsession with birds, and violent secrets intersect.

Three dead infants are found concealed in a shabby Montreal apartment, all linked to a vanished young mother with multiple aliases. Following her trail to Edmonton and a remote diamond-mining town, Tempe uncovers exploitation and violence in one of the harshest landscapes on earth.

With budget cuts threatening to shut their parents’ research institute, Tory and the Virals chase the lost pirate treasure of Anne Bonny along the Carolina coast. Rival hunters, booby-trapped clues, and unstable powers turn their desperate quest into a race for survival.

When a body encased in asphalt is discovered beside the Charlotte Motor Speedway just as Race Week begins, Tempe is plunged into a case involving an old disappearance, extremist militias, and a toxic substance the authorities seem strangely eager to hide.

Tory Brennan and her three friends find an old military dog tag on Loggerhead Island, uncovering an unsolved murder and a secret lab experiment. Infected by an altered virus, they develop wolf-like senses and must use their new powers before the killer strikes again.

A body pulled from a Quebec river is identified as a Vietnam soldier who supposedly died decades earlier. Tempe travels to Hawaii with her daughter Katy and detective Andrew Ryan to untangle military records, family secrets, and a mystery someone will kill to keep buried.

Newly arrived in the South Carolina Lowcountry after her mother’s death, Tory meets three local boys when they help her rescue an injured sea turtle. The encounter on the beach forges the friendships and curiosity that will eventually draw them all toward Loggerhead Island.

Tempe wakes trapped in a dark, icy space with no memory of how she got there. Rewinding to a Quebec winter case involving murdered elderly women and missing bones from the lab, she realizes a colleague is sabotaging her work and her life.

Renovation work in Charlotte uncovers a hidden cellar filled with ritual objects and the skull of a teenage girl. When a headless boy turns up nearby, Tempe must separate folk religion from true evil while political agitators whip the city into a panic.

A box of old bones pulls Tempe back to the disappearance of her childhood friend from the Acadian coast. As she helps investigate missing girls and a brutal child-exploitation ring, long-buried memories collide with a present-day killer who preys on the vulnerable.

In this tie in to the television series Bones, Dr Temperance Brennan and FBI agent Seeley Booth investigate a plastic bag of mixed skeletal remains left on federal steps. As Booth pursues a Chicago mob case, Tempe uncovers a serial killer hidden in the chaos.

Teaching field school on a South Carolina barrier island, Tempe uncovers a fresh skeleton among ancient graves. Other bodies follow, marked by subtle cuts that hint at an illicit trade in human remains, while her divided loyalties between Ryan and ex-husband Pete reach a breaking point.

An antiques dealer is found shot in Montreal, his death tied to a mysterious skeleton from an Israeli dig. Tempe travels to Jerusalem with detective Andrew Ryan and biblical archaeologist Jake Drum, chasing clues that tangle murder, faith, and dangerous fringe beliefs.

Three young women’s skeletons are found bricked into a Montreal pizza-parlor basement. Detectives dismiss them as ancient, but Tempe’s science says otherwise. Following faint clues through bitter winter streets, she exposes a modern predator who believes his crimes are buried for good.

This non fiction volume draws on Kathy Reichs’s real casework, explaining how forensic anthropologists recover, analyze, and identify human remains. Through detailed examples, she shows how tiny marks on bone can expose crimes, disasters, and human rights abuses that might otherwise stay hidden.

A routine case involving a newborn’s skeleton in a wood stove spirals when Tempe links it to a drug-running plane crash and animal smuggling in the Carolinas. With rare bones and human remains mixing together, she uncovers a trafficking ring that kills to stay hidden.

Working in Guatemala on exhumations from a brutal civil war, Tempe is drawn into a new case when bodies are found in a hotel septic tank. As missing young women and political secrets collide, she must navigate gunfire, corruption, and competing loyalties.

After a passenger plane explodes over the North Carolina mountains, Tempe helps sift scattered remains from the crash site. A lone severed foot that does not fit any victim list draws her toward a hidden cult and a conspiracy worth killing for.

Summoned from Quantico back to Montreal, Tempe joins a task force tackling a vicious biker gang war. When a young girl’s bones surface at a gang clubhouse and her teenage nephew starts flirting with biker culture, the investigation turns painfully personal.

Exhuming a nun proposed for sainthood in a frozen Montreal church should be routine, but hours later Tempe is pulled into a fatal arson and a trail of cult violence that stretches from Quebec to South Carolina, putting her family in the crosshairs.

Temperance Brennan, newly in charge of forensic anthropology in Quebec, is called when a dismembered body turns up in an abandoned Montreal monastery. As more women vanish, her bone-deep evidence points to a serial killer who is far closer than she imagined.

An in-depth professional reference, this book surveys modern methods for identifying human remains, from excavation and skeletal analysis to trauma interpretation and facial reconstruction. It is aimed at forensic scientists and students who need detailed, case-based guidance on reading stories written in bone.

This edited academic volume brings together leading paleoanthropologists to explore the fossil record of early hominids, from Australopithecines to Homo erectus. Essays examine field sites, skeletal fragments, and shifting theories about how and when our earliest ancestors evolved.