Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists, a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec and a professor of forensic anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.Her first book, Deja Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis award for best first novel. She has written 15 bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, the most recent include Bones Are Forever, Flash and Bones and 206 bones.