The Devil's Bones

A woman's charred body has been found inside a burned car atop a hill in Knoxville. Was this an accidental death, or murder? Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton is on the case, torching bodies to research how fire consumes flesh and bone.

Days later, he receives a mysterious package - a set of cremated remains that seems entirely unreal. As Dr Brockton investigates, he uncovers a truth too horrifying to believe

Little does Dr Brockton know that his research is about to collide with reality. Disgraced medical examiner, and Dr Brockton's nemesis, Garland Hamilton, has escaped from custody on the way to his trial. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse with Dr Brockton's life at stake. Finally running Hamilton to ground, Brockton finds only the incinerated remains of his enemy, or does he? The answer, along with the renowned anthropologist's ultimate test, comes in a searing moment of truth.

“'The real deal' Kathy Reichs.”

'Fantastic forensic detail ... Jefferson Bass brings an authoritative, compelling new voice to the forensic mystery' Jeff Abbott. Jeff Abbott
'If you like Kathy Reichs, you'll like Jefferson Bass. Perhaps even more' The Times. The Times
'More graphic than the frankly sedate Patricia Cornwell, Jefferson Bass' latest novel in the Body Farm series will please all crime fiction fans who love squirming at intricately gory detail' Buzz. Buzz
Kathy Reichs

Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the Body Farm 25 years ago. Jefferson is a journalist, writer and documentary film-maker. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek and USA Today. Together they have written two other novels in the Bill Brockton series, Carved in Bone and Flesh and Bone and two non-fiction books, Death's Acre and Beyond the Body Farm.

Dr Bill Brockton is experimenting with fire. The charred body of a woman has been found in a burned car atop a hill in Knoxville. But was she dead before the fire even began? Days later, his lawyer, Burt DeVriess, brings him a mysterious package - the cremated remains of his beloved aunt. But further investigation shows that the remains are anything but human and Brockton discovers a truth too horrifying to believe. All the while, his nemesis, Garland Hamilton, has escaped from custody and is hunting Brockton down. He'll stop at nothing to get his revenge. Summer's going to be very hot on the Body Farm this year.

A woman's charred body has been found inside a burned car atop a hill in Knoxville. Was this an accidental death, or murder? Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton is on the case, torching bodies to research how fire consumes flesh and bone.Days later, he receives a mysterious package - a set of cremated remains that seems entirely unreal. As Dr Brockton investigates, he uncovers a truth too horrifying to believe Little does Dr Brockton know that his research is about to collide with reality. Disgraced medical examiner, and Dr Brockton's nemesis, Garland Hamilton, has escaped from custody on the way to his trial. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse with Dr Brockton's life at stake. Finally running Hamilton to ground, Brockton finds only the incinerated remains of his enemy, or does he? The answer, along with the renowned anthropologist's ultimate test, comes in a searing moment of truth.

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