The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell Paperback Book NEW Crime & Thriller

The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses.\n\n Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local \npolice deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where \npeople are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at \nnight.\n But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery\n of the corpse of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves \nthrough the community. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief medical Examiner on a \nsimilar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to \nthis latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves \nsomething of a poisoned chalice - until Scarpetta finds enlightenment \nthrough the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm ...\n\nTHIS IS AN 'A' FORMAT PAPERBACK MEASURING APROX. 17.3CM TALL