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The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a y little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if theyre unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respector of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of an eleve The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a y little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if theyre unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respector of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of an eleven-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...