I’m thrilled to be part of the launch celebrations of The Bone Collection by Kathy Reichs. The Bone Collection was published on 3rd November 2016 by William Heinemann, an imprint of Penguin, and draws together four novellas featuring Temperance Brennan. The Bone Collection is available for purchase in e-book and hardback by following the links here.
To celebrate this month’s publication I have three hardbacked copies of The Bone Collection to give away to UK readers lower down this blog post.
The Bone Collection
A collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan – including the untold story of her first case.
The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs is renowned for suspense and fascinating forensic detail. Now she brings that same artistry to her first volume of collected short stories.
In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs’s very first novel, Déjà Dead, she at last reveals how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation.
Three more stories take Tempe from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed.
Giveaway
(Open in the UK only. Giveaway closes at UK midnight on Wednesday 23rd November 2016.)
For your chance to enter to win one of three hard-backed copies of The Bone Collection by Kathy Reichs, click here.
About Kathy Reichs
From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as one of only seventy-seven forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Dr Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerising forensic thrillers. For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and continues to do so for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec.
Kathy Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Kathy Reichs has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is currently a member of the National Police Services Advisory Board in Canada. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
A native of Chicago, she now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal. Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. All eleven of her novels have been international bestsellers. She is also a producer of the chilling hit TV series Bones. 206 Bones is her twelfth novel featuring Dr Temperance Brennan.
You can follow Kathy on Twitter, visit her website and find her on Facebook.
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I adore the TV series, Bones (nothing to do with the gorgeous David Boreanaz!!) but I’ve only recently started reading Kathy’s books – loving them!
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A great chance to read the start of Temperence Brennans career a book that is a must have
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I love it when you discover a new author and really enjoy their books.
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Thanks for dropping by and commenting
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If I could visit any country as a forensic anthropologist, I would want to see the catacombs in France. Thanks for the chance! 🙂
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Oh – interesting choice Heather! Thanks for calling by and good luck!
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I would visit Venezuela because it has such a varied climate and I think this would add a certain challenge to a forensic case
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Like to have a go at the giveaway…
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Oh – a place I’ve never been Tracy. Good luck in the giveaway!
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Good luck!
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If I was a forensic anthropologist I’d like to visit Papua New Guinea, as it’s a fascinating country with a history of head hunters! My dad worked there for a while and I had the opportunity to visit – it was quite an experience!
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What a fantastic choice Marje! Good luck in the giveaway
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I love Kathy’s books – looking forward to a new novel after this collection – more Andrew Ryan please!!
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Thanks for calling by Stacey.
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If I could visit any country as a forensic anthropologist I’d visit Italy – specifically Rome – and take a look around the Vatican (recently got back from a great trip there). See what I can discover!
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Great place to visit! Good luck in the giveaway.
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If I were a forensic anthropologist, I’d love to visit… nope, no idea! Somewhere warm and sunny is my default thought, that that has nothing to do with anthropology!
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I’m with you on the warm and sunny Christina – and if you need a suggestion, Jordan is brilliant! Good luck in the giveaway.
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The book sounds fantastic 🙂 one to ask father Christmas for I think 😉
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What a good idea. Thanks for calling by the blog Julia.
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Thank you Linda, fingers crossed !
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I’ve always wanted to read Kathy Reichs’ books. This would be a great opportunity. Thank you for the chance.
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Well good luck Jo!
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if I were to become a forensic anthropologist, I’d love to go to Lisbon, Portugal, as I’ve just come back from there and we saw some archeological digging from our bus tour…would love to see what they discovered!
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Oh, great choice Dawn. I love Lisbon. Good luck in the giveaway!
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Thank you for the giveaway! I’d love to spend time in Egypt helping to unravel it’s complex history.
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Oh – I LOVE Egypt Lisa. I once got my armpits burnt from holding up my arms to shade my eyes from the sun as I looked at some of the monuments in Luxor! Good luck in the giveaway.
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