Kathy Reichs, just like her character Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist, formerly for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and currently for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciares et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. A professor in the department of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she is one of only eighty-five forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, is past Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthopology, and serves on the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. Reichs’ first book, Deja Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times best-seller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her last novel, Spider Bones, was an instant New York Time bestseller, Flash and Bones is the fourteenth novel featuring Temperance Brennan.