Imagined crossover · Forensics and profilers
What if Sara Linton met Temperance Brennan?
The doctor and the anthropologist. Two compassionate, highly skilled women of science who refuse to let the dead go unnamed.
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The pair
Sara LintonPaediatrician and medical examiner, later Will’s partnerBy Karin Slaughter · Grant County · first in Blindsighted
Temperance BrennanForensic anthropologist working in Montreal and CharlotteBy Kathy Reichs · Temperance Brennan · first in Déjà Dead
Chemistry9/10
Friction3/10
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Where and when
Georgia and the Carolinas
The 2000s and 2010s
The story
- How they might meet
- Remains found in the mountains on the Georgia border need both a medical examiner and a forensic anthropologist.
- Why they would work
- Two compassionate, highly skilled women of science who refuse to let the dead go unnamed.
- What each brings
- Sara is a paediatrician turned medical examiner with a sharp clinical eye. Tempe reads bones like a book.
- Where they would clash
- Very little: they would argue about details and agree about everything that matters.
Strengths compared
Sara Linton Temperance Brennan
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.
- BlindsightedKarin Slaughter · 2001 · Sara Linton's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- Déjà DeadKathy Reichs · 1997 · Temperance Brennan's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
