The Bone Code
- Published
- 1 January 2021
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9781982139971
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Bone Code (2021), 368 pages, sits between A Conspiracy of Bones and Cold, Cold Bones as the twentieth Temperance Brennan novel. Kathy Reichs keeps the series grounded in real forensic procedure — reading trauma, age and cause of death from a skeleton — two decades after Déjà Dead began the series.
Key facts about The Bone Code
The Bone Code is a novel by Kathy Reichs. Readers have had it since 2021. It runs to 368 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Bone Code. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781982139971 to find the main one.
The Bone Code is book 24 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
The Bone Code is book 24 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows A Conspiracy of Bones. It is followed by Cold, Cold 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 9781982139971
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781982139964
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781471188923