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Kathy Reichs Rights Guide Frankfurt Book Fair 2020

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Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her newest book, The Bone Code, will be released March 2021. Dr. Reichs was also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and to the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale in Québec. Dr. Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. Dr. Reichs also assisted in the recovery of remains at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

She served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, and as a member of the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. at Northwestern and now divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina and Montreal, Quebec.

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Praise for Kathy Reichs:

“Kathy Reichs writes smart—no, make that brilliant—mysteries that are as realistic as nonfiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about Jack Reacher, or Alex Cross.” —James Patterson

“Nobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. She’s the real deal.” —David Baldacci

“Kathy Reichs continues to be one of the most distinctive and talented writers in the genre. Her legion of readers worldwide will agree with me when I declare that the more books she writes, the more enthusiastic fans she’ll garner.” —Sandra Brown

“Each book in Kathy Reichs’s fantastic Temperance Brennan series is better than the last. They’re filled with riveting twists and turns—and no matter how many books she writes, I just can’t get enough!” —Lisa Scottoline

“I love Kathy Reichs—always scary, always suspenseful, and I always learn something.” —Lee Child

“Reichs, a forensic anthropologist, makes her crime novels intriguingly realistic.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Tempe Brennan is the lab lady most likely to dethrone Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta.” —USA Today

“Reichs always delivers a pulse-pounding story.” —Publishers Weekly

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SPEAKING IN BONES Temperance Brennan Series #18 January 2016 paperback/ 2015 hardcover

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

No one speaks the language of suspense more brilliantly than Kathy Reichs, author of the acclaimed Temperance Brennan series. In Speaking in Bones, the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.

Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly what to do—test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is another story. She’s at a loss, wondering how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan’s marriage proposal. But the matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its head.

Hazel “Lucky” Strike—a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases—comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held prisoner and terrorized. Strike is convinced the voice is that of eighteen- year-old Cora Teague, who went missing more than three years earlier. Strike is also certain that the teenager’s remains are gathering dust in Temperance Brennan’s lab.

Brennan has doubts about working with a self-styled websleuth. But when the evidence seems to add up, Brennan’s next stop is the treacherous backwoods where the chilling recording (and maybe Cora Teague’s bones) were discovered. Her forensic field trip only turns up more disturbing questions—along with gruesome proof of more untimely deaths.

While local legends of eerie nocturnal phenomena and sinister satanic cults abound, it’s a zealous and secretive religious sect that has Brennan spooked and struggling to separate the saints from the sinners. But there’s nothing, including fire and brimstone, that can distract her from digging up the truth and taking down a killer—even as Brennan finds herself in a place where angels fear to tread, devils demand their due, and she may be damned no matter what.

Praise for Speaking in Bones “Speaking in Bones keeps the suspense high.” —Associated Press

“Temperance’s forensic sleuthing uncovers many secrets, along with a blockbuster psychological surprise.” —The Huffington Post

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BONES NEVER LIE Temperance Brennan Series #17 February 2015 paperback/ 2014 hardcover

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

The evidence is irrefutable: In sixteen New York Times bestsellers over the course of as many years, Kathy Reichs has proven herself “a genius at building suspense” (New York Daily News). In forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, Reichs has created a detective fiction heroine who’s brilliant to the bone. “Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden,” says The New York Times Book Review. In the acclaimed author’s thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wits against the most monstrous adversary she has ever encountered.

Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD’s Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she’s been asked to meet with a homicide cop who’s a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common—the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her pursuers, Brennan and police detective Andrew Ryan.

Now, as if summoned from their nightmares, Pomerleau has resurfaced in the United States, linked to victims in Vermont and North Carolina. When another child is snatched, the reign of terror promises to continue—unless Brennan can rise to the challenge and make good on her second chance to stop a psychopath.

But Brennan will have to draw her bitter ex-partner out of exile, keep the local police and feds from one another’s throats, and face more than just her own demons as she stalks the deadliest of predators into the darkest depths of madness.

In Bones Never Lie, Kathy Reichs never fails to satisfy readers looking for psychological suspense that’s more than skin-deep.

Also available: #1-16 of the series

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The Temperance Brennan series has sold in the following territories. Not all editions in print. Please ask for specific title information.

Bulgaria: Soft Press China: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, Shanghai Translation Publishing House Croatia: Mozaik Knjiga Czech: BB Art Finland: Werner Soderstrom France: Editions Robert Laffont, Oh! Editions, XO Editions Germany: Karl Blessing Verlag, Verlagsgruppe Random House, Bertelsmann Jugendbuch Verlag, Heyne Verlag Hungary: Fumax Kiado, Maxim Indonesia: Etera Imania, Gradien Mediatama Italy: Mondadori Libri (Rizzoli) Macedonia: Prosvetno Delo Publishing House Netherlands: Meulenhoff Boekerij, Xander Uitgevers, Uitgeverij Elikser, WPG Uitgevers Belgie Norway: Cappelen Damm Poland: PHU Sonia Draga, Red Horse, Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie Portugual: Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Brazil: Editora Fundamento Educacional Romania: Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Russia: ATTICUS Publishers, AST Release Slovak Republic: Liber Novus, Vydavatelstvo Slovart Slovenia: Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Spain: RBA Libros Taiwan: Crown Publishing Company Turkey: Artemis Yayinlari, Pegasus Yayinlari

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Rights to books #19 (A CONSPIRACY OF BONES, March 2020) and #20 (THE BONE CODE, March 2021) are controlled by Scribner.

Licensed to:

A CONSPIRACY OF BONES (#19) Czech (BB Art), French (Laffont) Italian (Rizzoli), and German (Heyne)

THE BONE CODE (#20) French (Laffont) and Italian (Rizzoli)

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CO-AGENTS For Kathy Reichs

BRAZIL ITALY Laura Riff Erica Berla Riff Agency Berla & Griffini [email protected] [email protected]

CHINA & TAIWAN JAPAN Jackie Huang Miko Yamanouchi ANA China Japan Uni Agency [email protected] [email protected]

CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLIC KOREA Kristin Olson Su Yeon Park Kristin Olson Literary Agency s.r.o. Korea Copyright Center Inc. [email protected] [email protected]

FRANCE POLAND Eliane Benisti Tomasz Berezinski Benisti Agency GRAAL [email protected] [email protected]

GERMANY SCANDINAVIA Antonia Fritz Ia Atterholm Fritz Agency Ia Atterholm Agency [email protected] [email protected]

HOLLAND SPAIN Willem Bisseling Teresa Vilarrubla Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency The Foreign Office [email protected] [email protected]

ISRAEL TURKEY Beverley Levit Amy Spangler The Israeli Association of Book AnatoliaLit Agency Publishers Ltd. [email protected] [email protected]

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