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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 ...For
more about Patricia Cornwell and her books visit her website at
www.patricia-cornwell.com
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