Kathy Reichs

In the year 2004, Fox expressed interest in the adapting the series to a police procedural crime drama, and the television show Bones premiered in the year 2005. Starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, the show was instantly popular, climbing the ratings and establishing a wide viewership. Kathy Reichs act as a technical producer for the show, advising the shows producers and writers about technical and professional aspects of the job in order to keep the show accurate and believable.

The best place to start is the Temperance Brennan series, the earliest of Kathy Reichs's multi-book series: it opens with Déjà Dead (1997) and runs to 27 books across 1997–2025, ending with Evil Bones (2025). Kathy Reichs's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Kathy Reichs has 58 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1997 and 2025. 51 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Temperance Brennan series with 27 books — and 7 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Kathy Reichs's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Temperance Brennan (1997–2025, 27 books), Bones (2006, 1 book) and Tory Brennan (Virals) (2009–2016, 10 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Kathy Reichs's 58 books into 6 named series and 7 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Temperance Brennan (27 books, 1997–2025); Tory Brennan (Virals) (10 books, 2009–2016); Temperance Brennan Collections (1 book, 2016); Temperance Brennan Short Stories/Novellas (1 book, 2016); Bones (1 book, 2006), plus 1 further series.