Cut to the Bone: A Body Farm Novel

Jefferson Bassamp;#8217;s Cut to the Bone, the long-awaited prequel toamp;#160;his New York Times bestselling mystery series, turns the clock back to reveal the Body Farmamp;#39;s creationamp;#8212;and Dr. Bill Brocktonamp;#39;samp;#160;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 unusualamp;#8212;some would call it macabreamp;#8212;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 chillingamp;#160;murder that leaves the scientist reelingamp;#160;from a sense of damp;#233;jamp;#224; vu. Followed by another. And then another:amp;#160;bodies that bear eerie resemblances to cases from Brocktonamp;#8217;s past.

But as the body count rises, the victimsamp;#8217; fatal injuries grow more and more distinctiveamp;#8212;a spiral of death that holds dark implications for Brockton...and everyone he holds dear.