Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan solves slayings with science in a best selling series of thrillers. Those popular books are also the inspiration for the Fox Television program, Bones.
Brennan may be a fictional forensics prodigy, but she's also the alter ego of real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. Reichs is a producer of Bones, and author of the Temperance Brennan novels.
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