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Angie St Clair leaves Dr Bill Brockton's National Forensic Academy course suddenly after she gets a call that her sister has shot herself. Angie doesn't believe it; she's convinced that her abusive brother-in-law finally went just a bit too far. The Florida police don't believe her, so she calls Dr Brockton for some help. While he's in Florida helping Angie, he gets asked to assist on another case. Somebody's dog keeps bringing in the skulls of young boys, and nobody knows who those boys are. As Brockton begins to investigate, he runs into clear evidence that the boys were killed. Then both the dog and the dog's owner are murdered. It is clear that someone doesn't want the investigation to continue. Brockton and his cohorts are not easily deterred. They continue to follow leads and work the evidence; it leads them to the ruins of a reformatory school. Nobody wants to talk about the school - not the people who worked there or any of the boys who were sent there. Brockton keeps working. He has a source, an inside source, but he has no idea who this source is or what the source's agenda might be. Clues continue to surface, and the resistance to Brockton's investigation gets stronger. Whose closet full of skeletons is he getting close to? THE BONE YARD is loosely based on a real school that still exists in Florida. If anyone is foolish enough to think that "reform" schools do any reforming, THE BONE YARD will quickly demolish that illusion. Bass, in the author's note at the end, draws the line between fact and fiction for this story. He knows his forensics, he knows his history. He can tell an enthralling story about an ongoing evil and keep readers interested. His pacing is good. His characters are believable and, mostly, people one might like to know. If THE BONE YARD is representative of the series, the other five books should be worth reading, particularly for those interested in forensics and/or forensic anthropology. § P.J. Coldren lives in northern lower Michigan where she reads and reviews widely across the mystery genre when she isn't working in her local hospital pharmacy.
Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, March 2011
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