Cut to the Bone by Jefferson Bass, 368 pages

This book serves as a prequel for the Bill Brockton series and shows the creation of the Body Farm, and his first encounter with a deadly serial killer. In 1992 Bill Brockton is the head of the Anthropology Department at the University of Tennessee, and is upset by the lack of proper guidelines for proving time of death. So he creates a rather macabre research facility devoted to studying the decay of bodies after death. Meanwhile, Dr. Brockton is called in to help investigate some deaths that bear an uncanny resemblance to previous cases. Soon Dr. Brockton realizes he is in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a serial killer out for revenge. And the game could end up costing him all he loves along with his life.
This series is a must read for fans of Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell, along with any CSI fanatics. The authors use their background to create a realistic and attention-grabbing book, that has the reader eagerly turning each page.