{"product_id":"the-bone-yard-a-body-farm-novel-isbn-9780061806780","title":"The Bone Yard: A Body Farm Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“[Bass is] the real deal.”\u003cbr\u003e—Kathy Reichs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sixth electrifying forensic mystery by author Jefferson Bass (“a fresh voice in the crime novel arena” —\u003cem\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eThe Bone Yard\u003c\/em\u003e is the most gripping installment yet in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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—\u003cem\u003eThe Bone Yard\u003c\/em\u003e is unassailable evidence that this series “just keeps getting better” (\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this latest thriller from \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Jefferson Bass, 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 boys' reform school in Florida \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bone Yard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls–ravaged by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of lethal fractures–send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young \"students,\" Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic experts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets . . . and they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous consequences in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The forensic thriller meets a formidable slice of history in Jefferson Bass’s impressive new novel....In addition to being a riveting mystery with an intricately emotional conclusion, Bones of Betrayal bears witness to the past with great respect for the long shadow it casts.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bones of Betrayal has more than its share of twists, turns, and red herrings....Wartime Oak Ridge proves nearly as atmospheric a crime scene as Sam Spade’s San Francisco or Philip Marlowe’s L.A.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilmington Star News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This series . . . just keeps getting better. [Bones of Betrayal] features both the most compelling story and the best portrayal yet of Brockton, who has completed the transition from fictional representation of coauthor Bass to fully realized protagonist.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Move over, Kathy Reichs. The Sherlock Holmes for bones has arrived.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatherine Ramsland, Author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The finest forensic thriller we have reviewed this year.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMystery  Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890550862053,"sku":"NP9780061806780","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061806780.jpg?v=1730233557","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-bone-yard-a-body-farm-novel-isbn-9780061806780","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}