Shri H. (litekepr) reviewed on 11/21/2006 + 10 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I am fascinated by investigation procedures and found this book to be utterly fascinating. There was some gore, but it does discuss dead and decomposing bodies. I had heard of the Body Farm and Patricia Cornwell's book. But I had not gotten a chance to read much about it. In March of 2006, I was asked to interview Dr Bass (founder of the Body Farm) and his writing partner Jon Jefferson. How could I refuse? They are both wonderful and fascinating people. Dr. Bass answered many of my questions about a book I was writing at the time which has a decomposed skeleton in it. I figured, who better to ask than Dr. Bass :) As an author who is moving into more mystery writing, I found this book invaluable and have marked many pages of information to use for additional details in upcoming books.

I would also recommend that you take a look at the novel written by Jon Jefferson and Dr Bass - they write under the pen name Jefferson Bass and the first book is Carved in Bone. Not as graphic as Death's Acre, but the forensic info is great and spurred a couple of ideas for my first mystery :) The second book in the series is scheduled for release in March 2007.

Shri Henkel
aka Nikki Leigh

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