The case of Kathy reichs elevate the use of the alter ego to the nth degree. Because this American author has made her profession as a forensic anthropologist the background from which to draw the arguments for her novels. In principle this is not so unusual, since John Grisham but also Robin cook they draw professional resources to support their plots. But the fact that the Kathy's fetish protagonist, Dr. Temperance Brennan play your very role transcends that complete mimicry of author and character.
Then there is the more personal characterization, the particular details of a fictional doctor immersed in other tribulations that sometimes serve to branch the plots into subplots that counterbalance the main plots or that are intertwined with that depth that a crime novel acquires when the personal and the professional are entangled towards a greater narrative tension.
Be that as it may, the knowledge in the field of forensic medicine (with its infinite possibilities to present criminal plots) and the vividness of the proposals, make Kathy Reichs a very cinematic novelist that, of course, ended up jumping to television in a series as famous and as successful as Bones.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Kathy Reichs
In the footsteps of Christ
A forensic anthropologist would dream of finding any vestige of a character as transcendent and mythical as Jesus Christ. Dr. Temperance Brennan may come to have these bones for study in unexpected ways. Although nothing is accidental ... It all begins with the autopsy of Avram Ferris, a Jew since whose death the doctor can build a parallel investigation.
As if it were a journey towards the holy grail, only this time with the firmness of a science capable of revealing any detail of a human remains, we approach the discovery of an ossuary in which a skeleton in good study conditions and with 2.000 years of antiquity it offers itself as a new ecce homo to reveal secrets never imagined. The body of Christ, or at least his remains, in the hands of Temperance, may end up telling a very different story from the official one ...
Ash monday
The best thing about Temperance Brennan is her almost obsessive determination, her compulsive tendency that once led her to alcoholism and which in turn leads her to her most conscientious and persevering investigations.
As rugged as it may seem, the bones of three women found in an old basement end up being considered a strange burial from some past time that has already been left without their investigation and without possible justice.
Nothing is suspected because no disappearance of three women is known of recent times. But Temperance wants to go further and as always, you have to start with those bones that between their latex gloves begin to offer more precise information; clues about the last days of life of the organism that housed the bones.
And this is how the moment of death gets closer to the present, and the ghosts of evil, who watch over the silence of their victims, begin to manifest around Temperance.
Little by little the case opens up in light of its harshness. And between the stupor and the fear for the freedom of such a criminal, intelligent and ruthless, Temperance must move stealthily but firmly to close a case as difficult for Dr. Brennan as it is suggestive for the reader.
Brennan report
A novel full of twists and turns in which Temperance's skills are continually undoing the foundations of an aerial accident that ended the lives of many young people, with the social repercussion of the matter.
The macabre of the investigation is loaded with greater moral implications as the causes point to something very different from a mere accident. Being able to drive a plane to disaster among the mountains, deliberately, can only be characteristic of an ominous mind.
Among the bodies of so many victims there are those who think they can hide their murder. We come to think that someone may be able to bring down a plane to try to hide the remains of their murder.
Or we can consider that it is simply an atrocious use of circumstances. The point is that in this aerial accident nothing is what it seems and only the investigative expertise, among the massacre, can provide some light ...
