Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

Forensics at its best.

This book is not like the books with the main character of Dr. Brockton. This book is about the writer of Dr. Brockton's character and the work he himself has done as a forensic pathologist. Dr. Bill Bass will do forensic cases and as a reader you will enter into his world and follow him as he does the actual work. The reader has to like forensics to both understand what he is doing and be ready for the gory things that go along with this line of work. The book is fascinating and a great read. Dr. Bass has a way of making these gory things interesting and you find yourself getting caught up in the cases he presents in the book. I highly recommend this book for anyone who watches shows like CSI to get an idea of what it is really like.

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Educational and surprisingly funny

I love forensic case histories and explanations, and found quite a few thoroughly outlined in this book. It was a bonus to find that Dr. Bass has a great sense of humor, and while some might find his wit slightly morbid I never found it overblown, inappropriate or disrespectful. The material is interesting and unexaggerated; one does not get the sense that things are blown out of proportion as can be the case with some true-crime forensic shockers. This book whetted my appetite for more like it.

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Excellent Read

If you are interested in forensics, this is a must! The book is nothing short of excellent. It's very entertaining, well written with wit thrown in. I could not put this book down until I finished. I look forward to more works by the author (HINT HINT).

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fascinating

With two body farm novels (see FLESH AND BONE and CARVED IN BONE) and an account of his forensic anthropological work (see DEATH¿S ACRE), Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson provide a sort of autobiographical account of the former¿s work in Kansas and more so in Tennessee where he created the first ¿living¿ forensic research lab. Dr. Bass gives credit to his instructor five decades ago Dr. Krogman, known as the ¿Bone Detective¿ who got him interested in the unnamed at that time field of forensic anthropology. He also credits Patricia Cornwell with her novel THE BODY FARM for making him famous and his type of work acceptable amidst the public without Ms. Cornwell there is no CSI on TV. However, the fascinating segments of the book are the cases over the last fifty years that run the gamut from the Big Bopper to the wrongly identified corpse to a fireworks factory explosion to ancient Persia to solving modern day cases for local police departments. It is these cases and how he and his team solved them by shaking and tossing of the bones that makes for a fine CSI read with Harry Houdini appearing as a star performer in a future exhumation. --- Harriet Klausner

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Haven't read any of this book

If this is anything like the first Body Farm book I look forward to reading it.

great if you want to learn

I liked reading this book since i am into forensic sciences...it was very informational and fun to read for me

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Beyond the Body Farm by gifted writer Bill Bass is a forensic play-ground of murder and mayhem. A book you don't want to miss! These writers sure know their stuff! Highly Recommended!

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