Cross Bones
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 439
- ISBN-13
- 9781846170089
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cross Bones (2005), 439 pages, is the eighth Temperance Brennan novel, arriving between Monday Mourning and Break No Bones. By now the series has settled into its established rhythm of self-contained cases layered over Tempe's continuously developing personal life.
Key facts about Cross Bones
Kathy Reichs wrote Cross Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2005. The book has 439 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781846170089 to find the main one.
Cross Bones is book 8 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
Cross Bones is book 8 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Monday Mourning. It is followed by Break No Bones. 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 9781501123160
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743569774
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780434015078