The Body Farm
- a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year if they're unlucky & where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue & the discovery of the corpse of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr Kay Scarpetta Chief medical Examiner on a similar case in Virginia is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice
- until Scarpetta finds enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm.. . For more about Patricia Cornwell & her books visit her website at www.patricia-cornwell.com