Who is Kathy Reichs?
Kathy Reichs, a true forensic anthropologist, and the creator of the story of Bones, made a guest appearance on tonight’s episode. Did you miss her? Check out the opening scene again where Zach is defending his dissertation to earn his doctorate. She was on the panel of professors interviewing him.
The really funny thing about all this is that Reichs is basically Brennan in real life. She has several novels out about her fictional character Temperance Brennan, and on the show Bones, Brennan moonlights as an author who writes about a forensic antropolgist Kathy Reichs. Although other characters aren’t quite the same and some aren’t even found in Reichs’ actual novels, maybe I’ll have to check some of her work out…

October 16th, 2008 at 10:23 am
[...] Tempe vs. Book Tempe by Brianne Clemmer It’s kind of funny, I’ve started reading Kathy Reich’s books that the show Bones is loosely based upon, and I’m surprised at how different the two [...]