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Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)

Jefferson Bass

Start date: January 1, 2024

Finish date: February 1, 2024

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Jan 26, 2024 Tracey rated it it was ok

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. 2.5

I loved the forensics!

Although one the “big reveals” was predictable, there were some fun twists and turns.

I did not love the good professor who made repeated unnecessary observations about his TA’s shapely form under her lab scrubs, the TA he notes would be his daughter’s age. Dude, no.

Or the, again unnecessary, remarks about a student crossing her bare legs under her mini skirt for his pleasure and offering sex for a grade.

Or how hot and bothered he gets about his students under his su ...more

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Feb 08, 2011 Almeta rated it really liked it

Shelves: caught-read-handed, serial-eyes

In his naïveté, my father used to take his transplanted Yankee family for the proverbial Sunday drive through the back roads of Tennessee. Our jaunts sometimes took us into thickets and hollers where we were not supposed to be. Although the locals are friendly enough, the wariness and mistrust is palpable. There is a shotgun just inside every doorjamb. Don’t wander too far off the beaten path, or you’ll enter a world where the law is skewed just a little to accommodate the native population and ...more

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Oct 12, 2023 Catsalive rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2023

An entertaining debut to this series. I rather like Bill's humour but it is a little clunky. At least I know the anthropological stuff will be very close to the bone - oh, hur, hur! I found it an interesting tale, if a bit hard on the Kitching clan. The combination of scientist & reporter seems to work pretty well, & I'd definitely give another one a go. ...more

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Apr 03, 2009 Barbara ★ rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-2009, mystery-medical-forensic, x-set-in-usa-tennessee

This book is written by a scientist and it shows. It's very technical and reads like a textbook not a novel. I found it very dry and rather boring. I know it's about death and corpses but there was absolutely no life to the story. Just blah. It was tough to keep my mind on the mystery with all the extraneous medical and autopsy-like information thrown out there. This is not an author that I will read again. ...more

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