March 2007--Volume V, Issue 3 Welcome to The Heard Word! Check here for reviews of audiobooks for adults, young adults, and children, as well as forthcoming titles. Featured Publishers Listener's Advisory Each month, we feature handy selection lists that help you identify forthcoming audio titles in a variety of subjects and formats. For the ultimate in convenience, please open ipage®. If your library would like a free subscription to ipage Basic, please e-mail ics.techsupport@ingrambook.com. • April Fiction • April Nonfiction • April Audiobooks on MP3 Auditor's Pick: Flesh and Bone Flesh and Bone (A Body Farm Novel) By Jefferson Bass Abridged on 5 CDs HarperAudio Read by Erik Singer Flesh and Bone is the second of the Body Farm novels by Jefferson Bass. Jefferson Bass is the pen name of the writing team composed of Dr. Bill Bass, founder of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm, an anthropological research facility, and Jon Jefferson, a veteran journalist whose work has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, and USA Today. At the opening of Flesh and Bone, Dr. Bill Brockton, protagonist of Carved in Bone, the first Body Farm novel, returns to work on a new murder case. At the request of a state medical examiner named Jess Carter, Brockton stages a donated cadaver at the Body Farm, recreating a crime scene in order to study the body's rate of decomposition and to pin down a more accurate time of death. The murder they are investigating is one of an adult male who is found wearing makeup, a woman's wig and clothing, and bound to a tree in a state forest near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The victim suffered severe head trauma and mutilation to the genital area. Because of the appearance of the corpse, Jess Carter and Dr. Brockton begin looking for clues to the victim's identity at a local nightclub popular with the cross-dressing population. It is here that Dr. Brockton encounters Miss Georgia Youngblood, a performer at the nightclub--a drag queen with a heart of gold who befriends Dr. Brockton and gives him insight into who the victim may have been. Meanwhile, one of Dr. Brockton's associates is working with an undercover police officer on a child pornography sting operation. Soon, it appears that both cases are related. And before long Dr. Brockton finds himself directly involved in the murder investigation he was helping investigate. What ensues is a masterfully thrilling story, complete with a love story, lots of forensic analysis, and several shocking plot twists. Erik Singer, narrator of Michael Crichton's Next (also from HarperAudio), lends his talent to Flesh and Bone and delivers a captivating narration.--Linda Arrington Lusk, Product Marketing Manager Contact Us | Privacy Policy | About Further Developments | Ingram Library Services | ipage.ingrambook.com | E-mail Preferences © Copyright 2006, Ingram Library Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.