Non-Fiction by Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

“Careful attention to detail and the occasional darkly humorous aside. The authors keep the narrative flow moving nicely. Strong-stomached readers who like to get dirt under their fingernails will gladly follow the UT forensic anthropology team up mountains and into rivers as they put names and faces to long-decayed bodies.”
— Publishers Weekly;

Beyond the Body Farm Cover

Publication date September 4, 2007
William Morrow
Hardcover, $25.95
ISBN: 0060875291
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In Beyond the Body Farm, readers will follow Bass as he explores the depths of an East Tennessee lake with a twenty-first-century sonar system, in a quest for an airplane that disappeared with two people on board thirty-five years ago; see Bass exhume fifties pop star "the Big Bopper" to determine what injuries he suffered in the plane crash that killed three rock and roll legends on "the day the music died"; and join Bass as he works to decipher an ancient Persian death scene nearly three thousand years old. Witty and engaging, Bass dissects the methods used by homicide investigators every day, leading readers on an extraordinary journey into the high-tech science that it takes to crack a case.

"A witty storyteller with a welcome sense of humor...Bass brings death to life."
Publisher's Weekly

Death's Acre (paperback)Publication date October 5, 2004
Berkley Trade
Paperback, $14.00
ISBN: 0425198324
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In Death's Acre, the first collaboration between Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, Bass and Jefferson take their readers inside the real Body Farm, recounting how it was created and some of Bass' more interesting forensic cases in his long career.

   
 

Death's Acre (hardback)Publication date October 1, 2003
Putnam
Hardback, $24.95
ISBN: 0399151346

 

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