Bare Bones
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN-13
- 9780099441472
- Type
- novel
About this book
Bare Bones (2003), 382 pages, sits between Grave Secrets and Monday Mourning as the sixth Temperance Brennan novel. Reading in publication order matters here, since Tempe's relationship with Andrew Ryan and her bond with daughter Katy carry forward continuously across the series.
Key facts about Bare Bones
Kathy Reichs wrote Bare Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 382 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780099441472 to find the main one.
Bare Bones is book 6 of 28 in the Temperance Brennan series. The series has 28 published books. However, the series starts with Déjà Dead (1997).
Additionally, Kathy Reichs writes Virals as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and young adult shelves. Meanwhile, Evil Bones is the latest published Kathy Reichs book on file, from 2025.
About Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs is an American forensic anthropologist and novelist whose Temperance Brennan series -- beginning with Deja Dead in 1997 -- draws directly on her own casework identifying remains for the Montreal medico-legal lab and testifying at the UN tribunal on the Rwandan genocide. See every Kathy Reichs book in order.
Its place in Temperance Brennan
Bare Bones is book 6 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Grave Secrets. It is followed by Monday Mourning. See the full Temperance Brennan reading order.
Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who splits her working life between Montreal and North Carolina, identifying the dead from skeletal remains, decomposed bodies and crime-scene fragments that ordinary detectives can't make sense of. Kathy Reichs, herself a practicing forensic anthropologist, grounds every case in real bone science and lab procedure -- how to read trauma, age and cause of death from a skeleton -- rendered with a level of technical authenticity that set the template for…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743453004
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780099556350
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743529822