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Carved in Bone (Body Farm #1)
There is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. The real-life scientist who founded the "Body Farm" has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics . . . and now he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.
Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his c...more
Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his c...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
December 26th 2006
by Harper
(first published 2006)
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CARVED IN BONE (Forensic Mystery-TN-Cont) – G+
Bass, Jefferson – 1st book
Harper, 2007- US Paperback- ISBN: 9780060759827
***Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton is summoned to a Tennessee mountain town where the local sheriff and deputy take him to see a mummified corpse of a young woman. His first task is to find out who she is and how she died. And then he has to find out who killed her while not dying himself.
*** I liked this book. The protagonist clearly knows his forensics but is down to earth, g...more
Bass, Jefferson – 1st book
Harper, 2007- US Paperback- ISBN: 9780060759827
***Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton is summoned to a Tennessee mountain town where the local sheriff and deputy take him to see a mummified corpse of a young woman. His first task is to find out who she is and how she died. And then he has to find out who killed her while not dying himself.
*** I liked this book. The protagonist clearly knows his forensics but is down to earth, g...more
A sensational first book in the series by the author known as Jefferson Bass. While not only laying out a comprehensive explanation of forensic anthropology for laymen, but also creating a great story, the author is able to keep the reader interested from beginning to end. Explaining things while still moving the story forward is a great skill. Doing so while keeping characters developing, the setting realistic and the plot from going stale sets this book apart from many others I have read. Whil...more
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Where can you find a world class research institute, decaying bodies, Skoal spitting rednecks, underground caves and steamy romance all within a mile of each other? Carved in Bone, of course!
Author Jefferson Bass is himself a fascinating character. Too bad he doesn't exist.
Bass is a hybrid between writer Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass - the forensic anthropologist who founded the notorious "body farm", a three acre breeding ground for rotting corpses in backwoods Tennessee. In fact, the area is...more
Author Jefferson Bass is himself a fascinating character. Too bad he doesn't exist.
Bass is a hybrid between writer Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass - the forensic anthropologist who founded the notorious "body farm", a three acre breeding ground for rotting corpses in backwoods Tennessee. In fact, the area is...more
Along with his partner Dr. Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson manages to weave some very technical information (you learn a lot about skeletal anatomy) into a story of murder and revenge in the hills of Tennessee. Not a whole lot of twists, but the characters are compelling enough to keep the pages turning.
I enjoyed reading this book, although it wasn't near as interesting as the crime scene investigation workshop I attended conducted by the author, Jon Jefferson. After hearing him describe what it was li...more
I enjoyed reading this book, although it wasn't near as interesting as the crime scene investigation workshop I attended conducted by the author, Jon Jefferson. After hearing him describe what it was li...more
I enjoyed the setting in the book as well... it creates environment for lots of characters!
There is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. The real-life scientist who founded the "Body Farm" has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics . . . and now he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.
Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the...more
The marvelous author and forensic anthropologist, William (Bill) Bass and his co-writer, Jon Jefferson (journalist) have teamed up to write murder mysteries surrounding what else, forensics.
Reading this is pretty similar in tone and style to reading his non-fictional books. The main character is just like Dr. Bass, as is his job, experience, etc., in fact I’m not all that certain why they gave him a different name. Maybe to keep us remembering that it is a fictional story, not an actual case Dr...more
Reading this is pretty similar in tone and style to reading his non-fictional books. The main character is just like Dr. Bass, as is his job, experience, etc., in fact I’m not all that certain why they gave him a different name. Maybe to keep us remembering that it is a fictional story, not an actual case Dr...more
First in the Body Farm mystery series revolving around Dr. Brockton at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
My Take
Oh, god! I do love how Bass started this. He sets you up thinking one thing in the Prologue and switches completely by the first chapter. His character, Dr. Brockton, is interesting. He's got a wicked sense of humor and some personal issues and it's a good thing that he accepts a joke on himself...turnabout is fair play. That said, I found this story more clinical and detached t...more
My Take
Oh, god! I do love how Bass started this. He sets you up thinking one thing in the Prologue and switches completely by the first chapter. His character, Dr. Brockton, is interesting. He's got a wicked sense of humor and some personal issues and it's a good thing that he accepts a joke on himself...turnabout is fair play. That said, I found this story more clinical and detached t...more
Carved in Bone
By: Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson a..k.a Jefferson Bass
Plot:
Re-owned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has pent his career surrounded by death at the body farm. Now he’s being called upon to solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environment’s unique chemistry. But Brockton’s investigation is threatening to open old wounds...more
By: Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson a..k.a Jefferson Bass
Plot:
Re-owned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has pent his career surrounded by death at the body farm. Now he’s being called upon to solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environment’s unique chemistry. But Brockton’s investigation is threatening to open old wounds...more
This book was so good! The author takes you step-by-step in the scientific processes and gives great, easy to understand background information so you don't have to worry about knowing anything about Forensic Anthropology to be able to enjoy this book. Infact, the story is presented in such a way that you actually learn true information as you go along and in a very fun way, if I may add. The discriptions of the places Dr. Brockton goes really comes to life in your minds eye because it is so wel...more
This is the first book in the Body Farm series, however, I read it after I had read #2-Flesh and Bone. There are major reference and plot development in Flesh and Bone coming out of this book that I found it necessary to read Carved in Bone to appreciate the events of book #2. I would recommend this series, particularly if you like CSI and medical dramas (You need to start with book #1, unlike me).
Dr. Brockton runs the Body farm at the University of Tennessee. The Body Farm is a unique research...more
Dr. Brockton runs the Body farm at the University of Tennessee. The Body Farm is a unique research...more
Bill Bass, legendary forensic anthropologist and founder of The Body Farm, teams up with Jon Jefferson (with whom he wrote two autobiographical novels) to form Jefferson Bass, writer of forensic anthropology grounded mystery novels in the vein of Patricia Cornwall and Kathy Reichs. Bass and Jefferson borrow liberally from real life, even going so far as to use actual colleague names and cases that crop up in their non-fiction novels, which creates rich fictional "side universes" to our own.
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Dr. Bill Brockton is a forensic anthropologist – which means he knows more about dead bodies than most people in the world. In fact, he owns a “body farm” where he studies dead bodies (human, of course) in all the various settings in which they might be found as victims of crime. As such, he is also the expert law enforcement and lawyers go to when they want expert testimonies for their crime scenes. So when the Sheriff of Cooke County finds a body in a cave, one that’s obviously been there for...more
I downloaded this on my Kindle at the recommendation of a blog friend. It's a new author for me,or team of authors as it's a duo who write under the pseudonym of Jefferson Bass. One author is Dr. Bill Bass who founded the Anthropology Research Facility aka the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee. His writing partner is Jon Jefferson, who is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. While I am not a fan of detailed gore, I do enjoy the detective work that forensic pathologists and medical exam...more
As the first book of a series which features the real life Body Farm in East Tennessee and the cutting edge world of forensic science, Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson team up to write an exciting mystery. Dr. Bill Brockton, fictional founder of the Body Farm is a forensic anthropologist and professor at the University of Tennessee. He has helped solve dozens of crimes, but none of them could have prepared him for his next case. Called in to the insular and backwoods Cooke County he discovers a b...more
""A woman's corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave's chemistry into a near-perfect mummy - one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton.
Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems." The surreal setting is Cooke County, a...more
Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems." The surreal setting is Cooke County, a...more
I have long been a fan of crime fiction, including Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs so when my stepmother mentioned this book to me, co-authored by the man who founded the Body Farm, I gave it a shot.
Probably due to the fact that most books like these that I have read have female leads, it took me a little while to adjust to the male lead in this book. Then I realized he is an older man teaching undergrads and working with grad students and was a little creeped out by that, especially since he...more
Probably due to the fact that most books like these that I have read have female leads, it took me a little while to adjust to the male lead in this book. Then I realized he is an older man teaching undergrads and working with grad students and was a little creeped out by that, especially since he...more
I thought this would be more about the Body Farm itself and was disappointed, but I needed an easy read, pure fluff, which this was. The situations described were unrealistic and not particularly interesting or suspenseful. The personal back story really had no connection to the primary plot. Based on this one, I won't rush out to read more Jefferson Bass books, despite his "pedigree." He should have stuck to forensic anthropology. I have read worse and more predictable books, though!
I enjoyed this. It's very much in the same vein as Kathy Reichs books, which I've read for years.
There's a lot more humor, including "gallows" humor in the book - but not of the offensive or even gross-out type.
The descriptions of forensics, evidence-gathering, bone cataloging, scene-handling et cetera are extremely well done and precise without being too overly detailed. At no time did I find the science or police parts of the novel to get boring. The description of a cataloging the bones of a...more
There's a lot more humor, including "gallows" humor in the book - but not of the offensive or even gross-out type.
The descriptions of forensics, evidence-gathering, bone cataloging, scene-handling et cetera are extremely well done and precise without being too overly detailed. At no time did I find the science or police parts of the novel to get boring. The description of a cataloging the bones of a...more
Mar 19, 2011
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I thought I would like this book better than I did since I'm such a big fan of the Kay Scarpetta and Tempe Brennan novels. I did enjoy the book - many positives - the setting was very cool as I am somewhat familiar with Knoxville, but even if you weren't you would definitely get a great sense of the area. I really liked the characters - Dr. Brockton, Art, Miranda, Tom Kitchings, Jim O'Connor, Waylon - very multi-dimensional and very human. The mystery itself was fascinating and kept me turning p...more
The 1st half was a lot like reading a college textbook, interesting because of the subject matter, but boring! Definitely, not a page turner of a book, until half way through. The geography of the locale is described in detail, the layout of the UT campus, and the eastern Tennessee border, etc. But the author never describes the main character very well, is he middle aged or an old man. I never could quite figure that out. But he seems Andy Griffenth's-ness . So old.
Then out of the blue comes th...more
Then out of the blue comes th...more
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Dr. Brockton is the founder of the Body Farm where they do decompensation experiments with bodies on the property to aid in investigations. He is called by the sheriff of Cooke County, a rural county where the residents take care of their own whether it be for what they see as illegal activity or other activities.
Sheriff Kitchings calls Dr. Brockton about a body found in a cave. It has been there a long, long time.
Dr. Brockton also has another case he is working on that the medical examiner tha...more
Sheriff Kitchings calls Dr. Brockton about a body found in a cave. It has been there a long, long time.
Dr. Brockton also has another case he is working on that the medical examiner tha...more
Very entertaining if a bit far fetched. Yes, I get that it is fiction, but I read this kind of book because I enjoy the science and other factual information that is woven into the story. The science was spot on. The setting, the backwoods of Tennessee, while artfully described, was a bit of stretch. (I have hiked over much of the area.) For instance, the cave that plays a major role in the drama is a little too conveniently laid out for the author and not realistic in nature. While the Karst g...more
This book was a free offering for my Nook, so I decided to give it a try. I've previously read lots of murder mysteries centered around forensic anthropology, including those by Patricial Cornwell and Kathy Reichs. This one was entertaining, and kept me reading right to the end. It is the first in the series The Body Farm, set in Knoxville, TN and featuring professor of anthropology/forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton, who runs a body farm on the University of Tennessee campus. The mystery...more
Forensic based crime fiction has become very popular in recent years. CARVED IN BONE is a worthy entrant in this sub-genre. Not only is it chock full of scientific details of forensic anthropology in easily understandable terms, it is also one terrific yarn. The characters have depth and the setting is so well described it is easy to visualise.
I loved the book and found myself reading aloud passages that describe some of the forensic procedures, much to the chagrin of some of my family.
If you’ve...more
I loved the book and found myself reading aloud passages that describe some of the forensic procedures, much to the chagrin of some of my family.
If you’ve...more
If you live around Knoxville, TN and watch the news then you more than likely have heard of Dr. Bill Bass, the "Bass" in the writing team of Jefferson Bass. Dr. Bass is a former professor of forensic anthropology at the University of Tennessee (my alma mater!) and founder of the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, affectionately known as the Body Farm. His professional work has influenced both Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell.
Carved in Bone is the first in a series of bo...more
Carved in Bone is the first in a series of bo...more
This was a great book! I was pleasantly surprised with it. It was very easy to dig into the story because it flowed so well. I really like Bill Bass's writing style, it is easy to follow without getting so "scientific" that the layman can't understand what the heck he's talking about. I really like it when writers take into account WHO is going to be reading their books and write it in a generalized way so as that the masses can enjoy it, and/or explain the scientific and technical jargon along...more
This was my first introduction to this series of "Body Farm" books, and I really liked it. One of the authors, Bill Bass, is a forensic anthropologist, and created the actual "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The central character in this series, Dr. Bill Brockton, is also a forensic anthropologist, and assists many law enforcement agencies in the the area with criminal forensics. The author's knowledge made the story here quite credible; while much technical info is inclu...more
In CARVED IN BONE we follow Dr. Brockton from his basement offices under the stadium at the University of Tennessee out into the wild Tennessee hills as he works with law enforcement, and even those on the other side of the law, to solve a case involving a mummy found in a cave.
The remains of a pregnant female were left in a cave many years ago and naturally mummified. Recently discovered, the mummy is brought to Dr. Brockton and he and his team begin trying to identify the body. It soon becomes...more
The remains of a pregnant female were left in a cave many years ago and naturally mummified. Recently discovered, the mummy is brought to Dr. Brockton and he and his team begin trying to identify the body. It soon becomes...more
I have been trying to make an effort lately to branch out into more genres, and this was my first true "mystery novel" in about 10 years. After all, a girl can't survive on a diet of fantasy and sci-fi alone.
As a whole, the book was enjoyable, but I wouldn't say the prose was very mature. The main character is an anthropologist at the University of Tennessee who runs the "Body Farm," a place where scientists study how the body decomposes to help solve crimes. Dr.Brockton is called in by a neigh...more
As a whole, the book was enjoyable, but I wouldn't say the prose was very mature. The main character is an anthropologist at the University of Tennessee who runs the "Body Farm," a place where scientists study how the body decomposes to help solve crimes. Dr.Brockton is called in by a neigh...more
This was a great book! If you enjoyed Patricia Cornwell when she used to write really good forensic mysteries (basically, her first three or four books), then you'll love the BODY FARM series of books by Jefferson Bass. This is a must-read for fans of CSI, BONES, and similar shows/books.
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