Crime Pays: Kathy Reichs

Decades ago, Reichs earned a crust as a forensic anthropologist. Since then, her wealth of experience has helped to make her the grande dame of literary crime fiction

Kathy Reichs still remembers his body. The year was 1994, and a three-month-old boy had been slain in a Quebec village. Stabbed to death, the baby was one of the first casualties of an apocalyptic cult later linked to the murder-suicide of 48 members in Switzerland. Joseph di Mambro, a founder of the secretive Order of the Solar Temple, had ordered the killing of the infant along with his parents, and then convinced ...