The Body Farm Av Patricia Cornwell

<p><font><b>The fifth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.</b></font><br><br><b>''America''s most chilling writer of crime fiction'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses.<br><br>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.<br><br>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