Review: There are much better books out there with the Body Farm as a setting.  This is just bad!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
Wow...this book was awful!  I hardly ever say that about a novel because I know how much effort, work, heart, and tears into their novels and I don't want to disrespect that, but this was bad!Dr. Eleanor Armitage is working in her lab studying the bugs that are on the corpse she is working on.  Her work is in forensic entymology, which is the study of insects life cycles relate to the decomposition of bodies.  By using this information, police and coroners can define time of death almost to the half hour by which stages the insects are in their life cycle on the corpse.During her work, her co-worker enters her lab and tells her that something is wrong with some of the corpses in the field and they have been disturbed.  Angered that someone would move a corpse and that any movement at all would invalidate the studies on that particular corpse, Dr. Armitage and her colleague go out into the field of bodies to take a look at what is going on.  They soon realize that there are more bodies that have been moved.  While checking on a body, Dr. Armitage realizes that the hand of the body has moved.  She is frightened at first but realizes that it could be left over electrical synapses in the brain that caused the movement.  However, within seconds, their worst nightmares have become real.  All of the bodies in the field have suddenly reanimated and are coming after them.The book continues with Dr. Armitage, her colleague and other security workers trying to escape the "zombies" while at the same time trying to figure out what has happened that has allowed these bodies to "come back to life".I am very interested in the actual Body Farm at the University of Tennesseee in Nashville where these kind of studies are actually being done today.  I assumed when I got this book that the novel would involve the real Body Farm and, even though it was a horror novel, would have some sort of interesting theme or plotline that I would like considering how much I am interested in the Body Farm in Tennessee.  I figured "how could the novel go wrong with the Body Farm as a backdrop?"  Well it went very wrong.  It wasn't, at least that I could tell, set at the real Body Farm.  It was set in a fictionalized version of this and I assume set in the UK since the writer is British and there were clues that this wasn't set in the states.I am going on too long on such an awful book but I wanted to make sure that I explained my feelings and thoughts.  I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.  There are much better books out there, such as the series by Jefferson Bass, 2 scientists who actually work in Tennessee at the body farm, who have written a murder/mystery series which is, in my opinion, a much better, but expensive choice.  This is a 1 star book for me.  Not worth the time I spent reading it.  Blah...