VJ Books has received: James Patterson – Fang, Lisa Scottoline – Think Twice, John Vorhaus – The California Roll, Erica Spindler – Blood Vines, Jefferson Bass – The Bone Thief, Robert McCammon – Mister Slaughter  (Limited Edition),  and James Grippando – Money to Burn.

(Starnewsonline, Ben Steelman, Jan. 22)

As mystery aficionados and regulars at the Cape Fear Crime Festival know, “Jefferson Bass” is a pseudonym for two people.

One is Bill Bass, the legendary forensic anthropologist and creator of the outdoor lab known as “The Body Farm,” made famous by Patricia Cornwell.

The other is Jon Jefferson, a freelance writer for The New York Times and other publications, who collaborated with Bass on his memoirs “Death’s Acre” and “Beyond the Body Farm.” (Jefferson attended the 2007 Crime Festival here in Wilmington.)

The two, as Jefferson Bass, have continued their partnership through a series of “Body Farm” mystery novels, beginning with “Carved in Bone” in 2006.

Their sleuth is Bill Brockton, an anthropology professor at the Univeristy of Tennessee (as Bass was) and head of its Anthropology Research Facility (the Body Farm’s official name). Think Gil Grissom with a Southern accent. (more…)

The first three Body Farm novels—Carved in Bone, Flesh and Bone, and The Devil’s Bones—took readers deep into the backwoods of East Tennessee, where fascinating forensic science mixed with extraordinary characters, including the Farm’s charismatic founder. Now, in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series Kathy Reichs calls “the real deal,” truth, lies, war, and history intertwine in a story that reaches new heights of suspense. This is Jefferson Bass’s most ambitious and enthralling book yet.

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Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass.

Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the University of Tennessee’s Anthropology Research Facility – the Body Farm – a quarter-century ago. He is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career, Death’s Acre. Dr. Bass is also a dedicated teacher, honored as National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science and broadcast on National Public Radio. The coauthor of Death’s Acre, he is also the writer and producer of two highly rated National Geographic documentaries about the Body Farm.

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