Temperance Brennan

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For the character in the TV series, Bones, see Temperance Brennan (Bones)

Temperance Brennan is a fictional character created by author Kathy Reichs and is the heroine of Reichs' crime novel series. The character shares the same name with the protagonist of the American television series, Bones, whose character was not based on Reichs' books or the Brennan of her books but rather on the author herself.

Brennan is a forensic anthropologist, who like her creator, divides her time between work in North Carolina, and working in Montreal for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. The character was introduced in Kathy Reichs' first novel, Déjà Dead, which was published in 1997. Brennan is divorced and has a daughter, called Katy. Throughout the books, she is constantly meeting with Detective Andrew Ryan and has developed a romance with him.