Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel

Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Bass, Jefferson. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780060759834.

Dr. Bill Brockton, the founder of the world-famous Body Farm, is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young mans battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga, and its up to the talented Dr. Brockton to assemble the pieces of the forensic puzzle. Brockton is brought into the case by the rising star of the states mechanical examiners, Jess Carter. Just as theyre on the verge of breaking the case open, events take a terrifying turn. Brockton has re-created the Chattanooga death scene at the Body Farm, but a killer tampers with it in a shocking way: placing another corpse at the setting, confusing authorities and putting Brocktons career and life in jeopardy. Soon Brockton himself is accused of the horrific new crime, and the once-beloved professor becomes an outcast. As the net around him tightens, Brockton must use all of his forensic skills to prove his own innocence . . . before he ends up behind bars with some of the very killers hes helped to convict. Flesh and Bone is another roller-coaster ride into the world of forensic anthropology, its twists and turns marked by drama and pathos, humor and grief, families and friends and enemies. With captivatingly real characters, plus fascinating scientific insights drawn from the case files of a living forensic legend, this astonishing novel confirms Jefferson Bass as one of our most talented authors of suspense.