ADVISORY/Photo Opportunity: Author Kathy Reichs Appears At Media Play; Author Slated to Autograph Copies of Her New Book, `Grave Secrets'.

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ADVISORY...for Saturday (July 20)

    WHAT: Kathy Reichs is slated to autograph copies of her new book
        Grave Secrets at Town Center Plaza Media Play on Saturday,
        July 20.

    WHO: Dr. Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the Office
        of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and is one of
        only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American
        Board of Forensic Anthropology.

        Currently, Dr. Reichs is a frequent expert witness in criminal
        trials. The experiences she has had while working in forensic
        anthropology spawned some of her best selling novels. Some of
        these novels include Deja Dead, Deadly Decisions and Fatal
        Voyage, which are all in her Temperance Brennan series.

        Grave Secrets, which is based on studies of a two-decade-old
        massacre in a Mayan village, will hit bookstores nationally on
        July 18.

    WHEN: Saturday, July 20, at 2:00 p.m.

    WHERE: Media Play
           Town Center Plaza
           8600 University City Blvd.
           Charlotte, NC