num_pages: 387
description: The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief medical Examiner on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice - until Scarpetta finds enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm.From Author’s Website
language: English
title: The Body Farm
titlecomplete: The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
characters: Kay Scarpetta, Lucy Farinelli, Denesa Steiner, Benton Wesley, Pete Marino, Wren Maxwell, James Jenrette, Emily Steiner, Max Ferguson
genres: Mystery, Adult, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 73599
places: North Carolina, Black Mountain, North Carolina, Virginia
series: Kay Scarpetta
publisher: Time Warner