Two Nights by Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs was born in Chicago in 1948. She is a forensic anthropologist, a Professor, and the author of many novels, among them Two Nights, a thriller published in July 2017. Learn more about the author, her book, as well as ratings and reviews on the latter.

Dr. Reichs is one of only 100 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and a member of the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada.

Kathy received her Ph.D. at Northwestern in her native town. She currently divides her time between Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Québec.

She has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For years she notably consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and to the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec.

Her first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

Her other Temperance Brennan books include Death du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones, Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones, Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, 206 Bones, Spider Bones, Flash and Bones, Bones Are Forever, Bones of the Lost, Bones Never Lie, Speaking in Bones and the Temperance Brennan short story collection, The Bone Collection.

In addition, Kathy co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. The best-selling titles are: Virals, Seizure, Code, Exposure, Terminal, and the novella collection Trace Evidence. The series follows the adventures of Temperance Brennan’s great niece, Tory Brennan.

Dr. Reichs was also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.

Her latest novel to date, Two Nights, is a standalone thriller. It was released in July 2017 and features a smart, tough-talking, scarred but talented heroine, Sunday Night, whose thirst for justice stems from her own dark past.

Let’s take a closer look at the book.

Synopsis:

 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A standalone thriller featuring a “tough-talking, scarred heroine”* from the author of the Temperance Brennan series, the basis for the hit TV show Bones.

Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct. . . .

Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing. But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie’s help. Is the girl dead? Did someone take her? If she is out there, why doesn’t she want to be found?

It’s time for Sunnie to face her own demons—because they just might lead her to the truth about what really happened all those years ago.

*Publishers Weekly

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