Cut to the Bone, Jefferson Bass
Cut to the Bone, Jefferson Bass
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Cut to the Bone
A Body Farm Novel

Author: Jefferson Bass

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 09/24/2013

Synopsis

Jefferson Bass’s Cut to the Bone, the long-awaited prequel to his New York Times bestselling mystery series, turns the clock back to reveal the Body Farm's creation—and Dr. Bill Brockton's deadly duel with a serial killer.In the summer of 1992, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore begin their long-shot campaign to win the White House. In the sweltering hills of Knoxville at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Bill Brockton, the bright, ambitious young head of the Anthropology Department, launches an unusual—some would call it macabre—research facility, unlike any other in existence.Brockton is determined to revolutionize the study of forensics to help law enforcement better solve crime. But his plans are derailed by a chilling murder that leaves the scientist reeling from a sense of déjà vu. Followed by another. And then another: bodies that bear eerie resemblances to cases from Brockton’s past.But as the body count rises, the victims’ fatal injuries grow more and more distinctive—a spiral of death that holds dark implications for Brockton...and everyone he holds dear.

About Jefferson Bass

Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass. Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, is the creator of the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility, widely known as the Body Farm. He is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career at the Body Farm, Death's Acre. Dr. Bass is also a dedicated teacher, honored as U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Jon Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science and broadcast on National Public Radio. The coauthor of Death's Acre, he is also the writer and producer of two highly rated National Geographic documentaries about the Body Farm.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christine on April 22, 2014

Dr. Bill Brockton is a forensic anthropologist teaching at a Tennessee university. He also consults on criminal cases using his expertise in forensics to help local authorities. In this book the bodies are piling up and strangely there is something familiar about the crime scenes. When another body......more

Goodreads review by Becky on August 11, 2016

CUT TO THE BONE is a suspenseful, entertaining prequel to the successful BODY FARM MYSTERY SERIES written by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Bass is the real-life forensic anthropologist, Anthropology Department chairman, and Body Farm director upon whom the book's protagonist, Dr. Bill Brockton, i......more

Goodreads review by Ericka on January 28, 2023

Getting close to the end of the series and this one goes back to a time where Dr Brockton’s assistant is Tyler, not Miranda. The body farm has just gotten it’s three acre spot next to the medical center and it’s Tyler’s task to study bugs and their life cycles on bodies. The mystery starts with exam......more

Goodreads review by Sabrina on August 13, 2017

If you are at all squeamish at all don't read this book. It's over the top descriptive of dead bodies, the crimes committed against women and into the mind of the killer who also tortures animals in detail. So this is a prequel to the rest of the series. It's full of making smart men sound like red n......more

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