THE DEVIL'S BONES—Jefferson Bass--(actually Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson). Three forensic mysteries rolled into one quick paced book told in the 'ah shucks' Dr. Bill Brockton style. Brockton, portrayed as the founder of 'The Body Farm', which co-author Bill Bass is, develops experiments burning cadavers in automobiles to determine how the body decomposes in such a fire, and what happens to their bones. That exercise to determine if a recently deceased-by-fire died the way described by her suspect husband. That excitement is set aside occasionally for Brockton to investigate a questionable crematory operation and all the while he's being perused by a former colleague hell bent on Brockton's death. Surrounded in these quests by his good friends from previous novels, Brockton details a huge wealth of forensic information, as well as some plain fun stuff...right to the end when, alone, he faces his enemy.