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Called to Florida to help a student look I to the supposed suicide of her sister, Brockton decides to also lend a hand to the locals, taking a look at a skull unearthed by a dog.
But one skull becomes two, and then the dog adds a femur. For good measure?...to ensure that his bone-pile will not remain unnoticed by human eyes? Certainly that is what someone suspected, for before that last bone could be retrieved by Brockton & the locals, someone put a bullet not only in the dog, but also in his kind-hearted, caring owner, who had "dared" to alert the authorities to the dog's gruesome finds. The killer even removed the tracking collar that the dog had been wearing in hope of finding his cache.
So where did th we bones of the three boys come from. What secrets could they tell so horrid that two additional, and truly innocent, beings had to die?
The crew would soon learn that the truth behind it all was far more gruesome & horrifying than anything yet uncovered. No more; no risk of spoilers here.
Lay aside about 6 hours, for you will not be able to set down this fast-moving, amazing (but in a terrible way), horrifying story. This time, historical fiction. The facts behind which, you'll learn after the story is told in a separate chapter, are far more honorific than anything in the story itself.


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The Bone Yard A Body Farm Novel Jefferson Bass 9780061806780 Books Reviews

I have to agree with the reviewer who said that while so much time was spent analyzing evidence from the death of a protagonist's sister and the killings at a boys' school, it came as a bit of a shock that the wrap-up was so speedy and matter-of-fact, as though the writers just wanted to get it to the publisher and be done with it.

The details of crime and anthropological forensics are displayed in all their intricacies. But the plot flounders in places. The dialogue is crisp and rich with content. But inner thoughts and musings would have been better if they came out in conversation.

It's a good book, but not great. It could have been excellent if the third-person characters were developed more and if their stories were more compelling. I never understood why the police would accept "suicide" as a manner of death for the protagonist's sister. The case for this was not made.

Back-country lawmen are characatures and so are the staff at the boys' school. More development was needed. These details, left hanging, make a book that is less rich than it could be. After all, in crime books, detail is the key.
An excellent book on a horrible situation! As usual the Body Farm book is not for the faint of heart. This one is more horrific than many since it is dealing with an actual boys' 'reform school' in Florida. The references to the school at the end of the book make what you have just read even more terrifying and horrific. There is a parallel mystery of a supposed suicide which is wrapped up almost too neatly, but the main story is the discovery of the bodies of children at the reform school. The writing of the Jefferson and Bass team is well done as expected. The book moves quickly and holds the reader's attention - almost too well. Recommended like other Body Farm books.
To a forensic anthropologist, bones can retain history. Recovering that history is the job of such a specialist. To followers of the compelling series coauthored by the writing team called Jefferson Bass, the skills of the protagonist, Dr. Bill Brockton, one of these specialists, are well known. Dr. Brockton runs the research facility at the University of Tennessee termed The Body Farm (begun in real life by one-half of the team, Dr. Bill Bass, a quarter century ago), where the details of human decomposition are studied. To laypeople, the human skeleton can be an object of repulsion, even though each one of us has one. To the well-educated eye, however, the 206 bones involved can help the forensic osteologist (the "bone doctor") to piece together the events that led to those bones becoming exposed to the elements. In The Bone Yard, Brockton is pulled into a horrid tale by one of his student's sister's death. So, he is off to northern Florida to help his student, an FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) forensic analyst, investigate the murder. Along the way, a friendly ol' coon dog brings home to his master part of a human skull...and then another. From this beginning, unfolds a tragic saga of systematic abuse at a former, now burned-down "reform school." Here's a hint What does one obtain after sewing a thin piece of metal between two razor strops and attaching a wooden handle to one end? This novel is not just a story of human degradation and death at the hands of violent, disturbed people; it also explores some answers to questions any thinking, caring person ought to have. Is it conceivable for a nation such as the United States of America to exist without prisons? What changes would have to occur in societal structure? The answers provided by one of the subsidiary characters in the novel surely would have the academic in question branded, in the political climate of the day, as a dyed-in-the-wool socialist. Although that term is bandied about by those who seem to prefer maintenance of the status quo, how about this for a concept Is it more effective and less expensive in the long run to invest in up-front solutions for social problems than to try to deal with the aftermath of those problems with ineffective responses to their symptoms rather than their causes? I think these are important questions to keep in mind while reading what is otherwise a fine addition to Jefferson Bass' series of forensic novels.
Called to Florida to help a student look I to the supposed suicide of her sister, Brockton decides to also lend a hand to the locals, taking a look at a skull unearthed by a dog.
But one skull becomes two, and then the dog adds a femur. For good measure?...to ensure that his bone-pile will not remain unnoticed by human eyes? Certainly that is what someone suspected, for before that last bone could be retrieved by Brockton & the locals, someone put a bullet not only in the dog, but also in his kind-hearted, caring owner, who had "dared" to alert the authorities to the dog's gruesome finds. The killer even removed the tracking collar that the dog had been wearing in hope of finding his cache.
So where did th we bones of the three boys come from. What secrets could they tell so horrid that two additional, and truly innocent, beings had to die?
The crew would soon learn that the truth behind it all was far more gruesome & horrifying than anything yet uncovered. No more; no risk of spoilers here.
Lay aside about 6 hours, for you will not be able to set down this fast-moving, amazing (but in a terrible way), horrifying story. This time, historical fiction. The facts behind which, you'll learn after the story is told in a separate chapter, are far more honorific than anything in the story itself.