nThe Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now hes being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environments unique chemistry. But Brocktons investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insularpeople who wont forget or forgive. And a long-buried secretprematurely exposed could inflame Brocktons own guilt--and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see himfail . . . by any means necessary. nThe Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now hes being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environments unique chemistry. But Brocktons investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insularpeople who wont forget or forgive. And a long-buried secretprematurely exposed could inflame Brocktons own guilt--and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see himfail . . . by any means necessary.--Houston Chronicle nThe Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now hes being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environments unique chemistry. But Brocktons investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insularpeople who wont forget or forgive. And a long-buried secretprematurely exposed could inflame Brocktons own guilt--and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see himfail . . . by any means necessary.--Houston Chronicle nThe Body Farm