A collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case. In First Bones, a prequel to Kathy Reichs's very first novel, Déjà Dead, she at last reveals how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. As gripping as her novels.