Br. Brockton is at the Body Farm with some forensic analysts
from Florida when one of them is pulled away by a phone
call. The next day, Angie calls and asks the Dr. Brockton
to investigate the death of her sister. The local coroner
has called it suicide but Angie is positive that it was
murder.
While waiting for an exhumation order, they take a tour of
the lab in Florida. Dr. Brockton is asked to examine the
skull that was found recently. He ends up taking the skull
back to Tennessee for further studies since it appears the
young man was beaten before his death.
As they investigate, more skulls and bodies will be
unearthed at the cemetery of a former reform school. Each
of the bodies uncovered will tell a tale of torture and
abuse. At the same time, Angie's sister's death will be
declared a murder.
This series is based on cases that brought bodies to the
Body Farm at the University of Tennessee. Gripping stories
of murder and and the cruelty of man, THE BONE YARD is one
of the saddest. The authors lay out the story in a factual
way that nonetheless, will lead the reader on a gut-
wrenching journey of discovery. If you like a good forensic
look at murder, don't miss these books.
In this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling
author Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Brockton discovers the dark
side of the Sunshine state when he's called in to
investigate human remains found on the grounds of a boys'
reform school in Florida
The Bone Yard
The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the
Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research
facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's
about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie
St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's
death was not suicide, but murder.
Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing
detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live
oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls–ravaged
by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of
lethal fractures–send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu
Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest
leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys'
Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that
met a fiery end more than forty years ago.
Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the
school's young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster
of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys
who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the
diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in
the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it
encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less
than delighted to find forensic experts from the state
capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county.
As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find
skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets . . . and
they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous
consequences in the present.
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