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 Mystery: December 22, 2021 Issue [#11131] |
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It was definitely different from the show, which is usually the case in transition. The main character Temperance was fashioned after the author, who herself was a forensic anthropologist concerned with making sure the science was right. Apparently Temperance has the same CV as Kathy. In the show Temperance is younger and more socially awkward and different from the older Tempe in the books and she has a different backstory. In the book, while some of her traits like her sense of humour, mirror the author as well, Temperance is and has some personal habits unlike the author. She also had Temperance moonlight as a novelist writing about Kathy Reichs! 
. Kathy was a producer on the show and even played a character in one of the episodes. She wrote several episodes and liked to be involved to make sure "the science is honest." She brings a lot of her experiences to the fiction work.
So who is this Kathy Reichs, crime writer by night and forensic anthropologist and academic by day? 
Kathy was born in July 1948 in Chicago, One of four girls. She liked writing and wrote her first book when she was nine. She completed her PHD in physical anthropology in 1975 and became a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is also affiliated with the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is even on the board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She has taught at a number of universities and even consulted for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina.
She brings her dramatic experience into her crime writing! She taught FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, and separated and identified commingled body parts in her Montreal lab. Imagine testifying at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda or assisting the Foundation for Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology in an exhumation in the area of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. She was even a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team assigned to assist at the World Trade Center disaster. 
Kathy has written Academic papers and many technical books, and as of 2019 written 21 crime novels, mostly the Temperance Brennan series. Her first novel, "Déjà Dead", won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. She says that everything she described in the book she did! 
