Cut to the Bone: A Body Farm Novel
New York Timesbestselling author Jefferson Bass delivers the long-awaited prequel to his chilling series&#8212;revealing the origins of the Body FarmOne ofSuspenseMagazine&#39;s Best Books of 2013In the summer of 1992, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee senator Al Gore begin their long-shot bid for the White House. On a sweltering hillside in Knoxville, Dr. Bill Brockton, the ambitious young head of the University of Tennessee&#39;s anthropology department, launches a unique&#8212;some say macabre&#8212;research facility. Brockton is determined to revolutionize forensics to help solve homicides. But his plans are derailed by a chilling murder that leaves the scientist reeling fromd&#233;j&#224; vu. Followed by another. Then another: bodies that bear eerie resemblances to cases from Brockton&#39;s past. The police chalk up the first corpse to coincidence. But as the body count rises, the victims&#39; injuries grow more distinctive&#8212;a spiral of death that bodes ill for Brockton himself. If the killer isn&#39;t found quickly, the death toll could be staggering. And the next victims could include Brockton . . . and everyone he holds dear.