Imagined crossover · Forensics and profilers
What if Temperance Brennan met Kay Scarpetta?
The forensic queens. Two pioneering forensic investigators who speak for the dead with science and stubbornness.
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The pair
Temperance BrennanForensic anthropologist working in Montreal and CharlotteBy Kathy Reichs · Temperance Brennan · first in Déjà Dead
Kay ScarpettaChief medical examiner and forensic pathologistBy Patricia Cornwell · Kay Scarpetta · first in Postmortem
Chemistry7/10
Friction8/10
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Where and when
The American south-east
The 1990s to today
The story
- How they might meet
- Remains found on the border between North Carolina and Virginia bring two forensic experts to the same scene.
- Why they would work
- Two pioneering forensic investigators who speak for the dead with science and stubbornness.
- What each brings
- Tempe reads bones and time; Kay reads the body and the scene. Together little would get past them.
- Where they would clash
- Both are used to being the expert in the room, and neither takes kindly to being second-guessed.
Strengths compared
Temperance Brennan Kay Scarpetta
Our own ratings out of 10, for fun.
On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- Déjà DeadKathy Reichs · 1997 · Temperance Brennan's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- PostmortemPatricia Cornwell · 1990 · Kay Scarpetta's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
