The Bone Collection
- Published
- 1 January 2016
- Pages
- 370
- ISBN-13
- 9780399593222
- Type
- collection
About this book
The Bone Collection (2016), 370 pages, is an anthology gathering the three .5-numbered Temperance Brennan novellas — Bones in Her Pocket, Swamp Bones and Bones on Ice — plus First Bones, a prequel novella otherwise unavailable on its own. It sits in publication order after Bones on Ice and before A Conspiracy of Bones, and is optional side reading rather than required for the main series arc.
Key facts about The Bone Collection
The Bone Collection is a collection by Kathy Reichs. Readers have had it since 2016. It runs to 370 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Bone Collection. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399593222 to find the main one.
The Bone Collection is book 22 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 Collection is book 22 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Bones on Ice. It is followed by A Conspiracy of 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 9780606394642
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781501161421
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781501155291