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Forensic novel gruesome, addictive
Say cheeeeese!”
As a child, you undoubtedly held “cheese” in your mouth while your mother was on the backside of a camera. Birthdays, picnics, silly backyard days in a blow-up pool, holidays with Grandma, and so many Firsts were immortalized with a pop (remember flash cubes?) or a snap (cameras with a fold-up viewer?) or a whirr and a shake (instant pictures?).
But some pictures, long-held in storage, could deepen a mystery. In the new book Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Brockton needs to put everything in focus to solve a murder.
The old man floating in the abandoned swimming pool on the side of a Tennessee hill had been dead long enough to have frozen in the ice. When Brockton and his assistant, Miranda, got the body thawed, they turned it over to the medical examiner, Dr. Edelberto Garcia, for autopsy. Read the rest of this entry »