Monday, March 28, 2011

The Body Farm Series

Carved in Bone By Jefferson Bass

PS3602 .A8475 C37 2006

Carved in Bone is the first book in the Body Farm mystery series by Jefferson Bass. It introduces Dr. Bill Brockton, anthropologist and founder of the University of Tennessee’s Body Farm, as stated on the book jacket, a place where “human corpses are left to the elements and every manner of decay is explored”.  Wait, the stories are not so gruesome!  Carved in Bone is “a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science”.   It’s a great mystery, a good page turner with wonderful characters and just enough bits of forensic science procedures to unlock a fascinating murder.

For further information about this series, go to the Library Database page and locate the ESBSCOHost Services menu.  Scroll down to the last entry-- the NoveList database.  Select the Series button and enter Body Farm. The screen will display series titles in order with descriptions for each book.

Be sure to open a free account and track your reading.  After signing in, it is possible to create custom folders, such as Books I’ve Read and Books I Want to Read

So, when you finish this series, if you loved it and want to read more like it, visit Novelist on the library database page.   NoveList will provide recommended titles based on the book you just finished.  These future reads will have similar writing styles and subjects.

Bass, Jefferson.(2006).  Carved in bone. New York: Harper Collins.
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