Dr. Bill Brockton is a forensic anthropologist and in charge of a place called the Body Farm where he and his small staff lay out and bury corpses to recreate death scenes and hopefully solve some murders. The Body Farm is actually the Anthropology Research Facility at the University of Tennessee and Bill has staged hundreds of deaths for his graduate students to study and has even helped solve some murder cases in the past. Bill and his graduate assistant, Miranda are about to re-create a gruesome killing of a cross-dressing victim for medical examiner Dr Jessamine Carter. Bill would really like to get to know Jess outside of work. Jess is not sure if Bill is ready for the dating world since he has just gotten over the death of his wife of thirty years. But Jess is willing to take things slowly with Bill. Bill is ecstatic and hopes things will work out the way he has been imagining. But Bill and Jess's romance is not easy. Bill is being sued by a student because of a disagreement about evolution and religion. And even though Jess doesn't mind dating Bill, she finds that she is not ready to have a relationship because of her issues with her ex-husband. And then the unimaginable happens and Jess is brutally murdered and found strung up against a tree on the Body Farm. Bill finds her body and realizes he is being framed for her murder. Now Bill has to figure out who is out to get him and why. FLESH AND BONE is a taunt murder mystery where everyone could be a suspect. Poor Bill is an amazing character who is intelligent, kind and loyal. He is one man any woman would love to have as a friend, co-worker or lover. When he is framed over the murder of the one woman he has come to respect and love after his wife's death, it is heart breaking. His life is truly changed forever. But Bill doesn't give up. He will fight and find the answers he needs and why he suddenly has an enemy so set against ruining his life. Fans of police procedurals or forensic thrillers will really enjoy this latest by Jefferson Bass. Each chapter brings new evidence against Bill and closer to a confrontation with the person responsible for the murder of Jess. You won't know till the very end who is guilty and if Bill will go to jail or make it out alive to continue his work on the Body Farm. I recommend FLESH AND BONE as a thrilling mystery that will not disappoint.

Book Summary

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 after re-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.