Imagined crossover · Forensics and profilers
What if Terry McCaleb met Moe Reed?
The retired profiler and the young detective. An experienced investigator who cannot quite retire, and a young detective learning how to read a case.
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The pair
Moe ReedYoung LAPD detective working under MiloBy Jonathan Kellerman · Alex Delaware · first in Bones
Chemistry8/10
Friction4/10
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Where and when
Avalon, Catalina Island
The 2000s
The story
- How they might meet
- A missing woman’s car is found at the ferry terminal in Long Beach, and young Detective Moe Reed takes the boat to Catalina to ask the former FBI profiler who lives there for help.
- Why they would work
- An experienced investigator who cannot quite retire, and a young detective learning how to read a case.
- What each brings
- McCaleb brings a profiler’s insight and the patience of a man who lives by the sea. Reed brings energy, discipline and Milo Sturgis’s training.
- Where they would clash
- Reed follows procedure; McCaleb follows instinct, and has nothing to lose by bending the rules.
Strengths compared
Terry McCaleb Moe Reed
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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.
- Blood WorkMichael Connelly · 1998 · Terry McCaleb's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- BonesJonathan Kellerman · 2008 · Moe Reed's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
