Brennan thinks about this for a moment. "I can't remember having any specific occupational dream as a child, but I was always very interested in sciences. That and my father was a high school science teacher and so encouraged any scientific curiosities I had. Anthropology as a discipline was fascinating to me, and when my parents went missing, it seemed natural to specialize in forensic anthropology."

That is, he was a science teacher after he was done being a bank robber with her mother, but that detail is too personal to get into with someone she'd only just met. It was a touchy subject even to her closest friends.

"Although, a few years ago I ventured into novel writing and wrote a book, just to see if I could. It was a crime novel based loosely on my work. It was quite successful and I wrote a few sequels to it that were also popular, so you could say I'm a best-selling author on the side."

Brennan never was one for excess modesty.