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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2006
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Body Farm Novel

1 - Cut to the Bone (Sep-2013)
2 - Carved in Bone (Feb-2006)
3 - Flesh and Bone (Feb-2007)
4 - The Devil's Bones (Feb-2008)
5 - Bones of Betrayal (Feb-2009)
6 - The Bone Thief (Apr-2010)
6.5 - Madonna and Corpse (Apr-2012)
7 - The Bone Yard (Mar-2011)
8 - The Inquisitor's Key (May-2012)
8.5 - Jordan's Stormy Banks (Sep-2013)
9 - The Breaking Point (Jun-2015)
10 - Without Mercy (Oct-2016)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause...



  • Even the most brilliantly disguised murder leaves clues on flesh and bone -- and violent crime's shocking secrets are ultimately revealed at...THE BODY FARM Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee's world-famous Body Farm -- a small piece...



  • Drawing on research at the Body Farm--three acres of land in the backwoods of Tennessee, where bodies are left to the elements to illuminate human decomposition--Bass has moved fiction to a fascinating new realm, with forensics expertise drawn from h...



  • Dr. Bill Brockton is in the middle of a nuclear-terrorism disaster drill when he receives an urgent call from the nearby town of Oak Ridge--better known as Atomic City, home of the Bomb, and the key site for the Manhattan Project during World War II....



  • Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are s...



  • The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a ...



  • Renowned bone detective Bill Brockton and his intrepid assistant, Miranda, are about to get immersed in murder and intrigue in Avignon, France, home of the popes for most of the fourteenth century. But first, in this artful prequel to The Inquisitor'...



  • While helping to excavate a newly unearthed chamber beneath the spectacular Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France, Miranda Lovelady -- protegee of Dr. Bill Brockton -- makes a startling discovery: a stone chest bearing an inscription declaring it ho...



  • In this long-awaited prequel to his New York Times bestselling series, Jefferson Bass turns the clock back to reveal the Body Farm's creation--and Dr. Bill Brockton's deadly duel with a serial killer In the summer of 1992, Arkansas governor Bill C...






  • In the summer of 1990, Dr. Bill Brockton--a bright, ambitious young forensic scientist--is hired by the University of Tennessee to head, and to raise the profile of, the school's small Anthropology Department. Six months later, the ink on his contrac...



  • Renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass -- founder of the Body Farm -- tackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never seen again. Six m...



  • Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton’s successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series. It’s been ten year...



  • In the most suspenseful installment of the New York Times bestselling Body Farm series to date, forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton investigates a bizarre murder -- and confronts a deadly enemy he thought he’d put behind bars for good. For...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jefferson Bass has published 14 books.

Jefferson Bass does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Bones of Avignon, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone, was published in February 2006.

Yes. Jefferson Bass has 1 series.