The Bone Yard
A Body Farm Novel
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4.2 • 174 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“[Bass is] the real deal.”
—Kathy Reichs
The sixth electrifying forensic mystery by author Jefferson Bass (“a fresh voice in the crime novel arena” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer), The Bone Yard is the most gripping installment yet in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm series. Called away from Tennessee’s renowned Body Farm (the real life human decomposition laboratory around which these remarkable thrillers are based), Dr. Bill Brockton discovers the dark side of the Sunshine state when he’s called in to investigate human remains found on the grounds of a Florida boys’ reform school. Rich in authentic forensic detail and featuring a protagonist as involving as crime fiction’s most popular medical examiners—including Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta, Karin Slaughter’s Sara Linton, and Kathy Reichs’s star forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan—The Bone Yard is unassailable evidence that this series “just keeps getting better” (Booklist).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Bass's uneven sixth forensic procedural featuring Dr. Bill Brockton (after The Bone Thief), Brockton, who's in charge of the Body Farm, a Tennessee research facility where cadavers are left to decay for research purposes, agrees to help a visiting Florida forensic analyst, Angie St. Claire, with a personal tragedy. St. Claire's sister has died of a shotgun blast to the head in Georgia, a death ruled a suicide by the local authorities, but St. Claire suspects her brother-in-law killed her sister. Brockton's efforts to preserve evidence that could support St. Claire's theory ends up taking a backseat to another puzzle, based on events at an actual Florida reform school, where boys were routinely physically abused. Realistic descriptions of forensic work compensate only in part for less than convincing action sequences. Bass is the writing team of Bill Bass, the real-life model for Brockton, and Jon Jefferson.
Customer Reviews
Hard topic, quick read
Interesting story with a gruesome plot. It is worth reading, though not a literary masterpiece. Characters could have been developed more and some of the items introduced were not closed by the end.
Great read
Another great read from Jefferson Bass. The story was heart wrenching but told well. Just a suggestion for you. Please don’t use the term “squaw” it’s degrading and unnecessary.
The Bone Yard
A very good read. I would recommend the book to all fiction lovers. It was a tad slow in the beginning but soon came together and kept me interested. I am now looking forward to reading another of Mr. Bass's books.