Flesh and Bone

Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee''s world-famous Body Farm—a small piece of land where corpses are left to decay in order to gain important forensic information. Now in the wake of a shocking crime in nearby Chattanooga he''s called upon by Jess Carter—the rising star of the state''s medical examiners—to help her unravel a murderous puzzle. But afterre-creating the death scene at the Body Farm Brockton discovers his career reputation and life are in dire jeopardy when a second unexplained corpse appears in the grisly setting.Accused of a horrific crime—transformed overnight from a respected professor to a hated and feared pariah—Bill Brockton will need every ounce of his formidable forensic skills to escape the ingeniously woven net that''s tightening around him . . . and to prove the seemingly impossible: his own innocence.