Temperance Brennan

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Temperance Deasee Brennan is a fictional character created by author Kathy Reichs and is the hero of her crime novel series. She was introduced in Reichs' first novel, Déjà Dead, which was published in 1997. 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. Brennan is divorced and has a daughter named Katy. Throughout the books, she is constantly meeting with Detective Andrew Ryan and has developed a romance with him.

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.^[1] Unlike this character, her birth name was Joy Keenan. Her parents were bank robbers who were forced to change their names and go into hiding when they testified against other robbers in their group. Brennan discovers her mother's remains, which had been held at the Jeffersonian ever since she arrived, and finally solves her murder. She also reunites and reconciles with her older brother Russ (formerly Kyle Keenan).

Brennan makes a cameo appearance in Jasper Fforde's 2007 novel First Among Sequels.

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