Cut to the Bone

A Body Farm Novel

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  • Jefferson
  • Bass’s
  • Cut
  • to
  • the
  • Bone,
  • the
  • long-awaited
  • prequel
  • to
  • his
  • New
  • York
  • Times
  • bestselling
  • mystery
  • series,
  • turns
  • the
  • clock
  • back
  • to
  • reveal
  • the
  • Body
  • Farm's
  • creation—and
  • Dr.
  • Bill
  • Brockton's
  • deadly
  • duel
  • with
  • a
  • serial
  • killer.In
  • the
  • summer
  • of
  • 1992,
  • Arkansas
  • Governor
  • Bill
  • Clinton
  • and
  • Tennessee
  • Senator
  • Albert
  • Gore
  • begin
  • their
  • long-shot
  • campaign
  • to
  • win
  • the
  • White
  • House.
  • In
  • the
  • sweltering
  • hills
  • of
  • Knoxville
  • at
  • the
  • University
  • of
  • Tennessee,
  • Dr.
  • Bill
  • Brockton,
  • the
  • bright,
  • ambitious
  • young
  • head
  • of
  • the
  • Anthropology
  • Department,
  • launches
  • an
  • unusual—some
  • would
  • call
  • it
  • macabre—research
  • facility,
  • unlike
  • any
  • other
  • in
  • existence.Brockton
  • is
  • determined
  • to
  • revolutionize
  • the
  • study
  • of
  • forensics
  • to
  • help
  • law
  • enforcement
  • better
  • solve
  • crime.
  • But
  • his
  • plans
  • are
  • derailed
  • by
  • a
  • chilling
  • murder
  • that
  • leaves
  • the
  • scientist
  • reeling
  • from
  • a
  • sense
  • of
  • déjà
  • vu.
  • Followed
  • by
  • another.
  • And
  • then
  • another:
  • bodies
  • that
  • bear
  • eerie
  • resemblances
  • to
  • cases
  • from
  • Brockton’s
  • past.But
  • as
  • the
  • body
  • count
  • rises,
  • the
  • victims’
  • fatal
  • injuries
  • grow
  • more
  • and
  • more
  • distinctive—a
  • spiral
  • of
  • death
  • that
  • holds
  • dark
  • implications
  • for
  • Brockton...and
  • everyone
  • he
  • holds dear.
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