Description
In plain black letters were the words Anthropological Research Facility,' but it was better known but another, less formal name. Most people just called it The Body Farm.
The victim has been bound and torturer, the body decomposed beyond recognition...
A second body is found. A nightmare is about to begin...
A serial killer is at work and the death toll is rising...
A brutal abduction - a helpless victim is taken...
And for forensics expert David Hunter, it's become a terrifying race against time.
A field of corpses, laid out in a macabre displayโฆA serial killer who confounds even the most seasoned profilersโฆA doctor whose life has been shattered by crimeโplunged into the heart of a shocking investigationโฆ In this masterful new novel by Simon Beckett, #1 internationally bestselling author of Written in Bone and The Chemistry of Death, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is thrust into his first murder investigation on U.S. soilโand his most devastating case yet.
In the heat of a Tennessee summer, Dr. Hunter has come to Knoxvilleโs legendary โBody Farmโโthe infamous field laboratory where law enforcement personnel study real corpsesโto escape London and the violence that nearly destroyed his life. Heโs also here to find out if heโs still up to the job of sorting through death in all its strange and terrible forms.โฆ Hunter will soon find his answer when heโs called to a crime scene in a remote Smoky Mountain cabinโa scene as grisly as it is bizarre.
The body is taped to a table. Everything about the crime sceneโthe wounds, the decomposition, the microscopic evidenceโquickly short-circuits the tools and methods of forensic experts. Within days, Hunter knows heโs dealing with a serial killer, someone intimately familiar with the intricacies of forensics. All around him, egos and hierarchies clashโfrom the boasts of a renowned criminal profiler to the dogged work of a young female investigatorโbut fate keeps pushing Hunter further into the heart of the manhunt. And the killer keeps coming up with surprises: booby-trapping corpses, faking times of death, swapping bodiesโfinally turning his sights on after Hunter himself.โฆ
ISBN:9780553824797
