Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee s world-famous Body Farm—a small piece of land where corpses are left to decay in order to gain important forensic information. Now， in the wake of a shocking crime in nearby Chattanooga， he s called upon by Jess Carter—the rising star of the state s medical examiners—to help her unravel a murderous puzzle. But after re-creating the death scene at the Body Farm， Brockton discovers his career， reputation， and life are in dire jeopardy when a second， unexplained corpse appears in the grisly setting. Accused of a horrific crime—transformed overnight from a respected professor to a hated and feared pariah—Bill Brockton will need every ounce of his formidable forensic skills to escape the ingeniously woven net that s tightening around him . . . and to prove the seemingly impossible: his own innocence.