The release date for the English version of 'The Body Farm' by
Patricia Cornwell is Dec 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Body Farm is a research facility where the disintegration of dead bodies is tested. Black Mountain, North Carolina, is a quiet small town where residents are still getting accustomed to the concept of locking their doors at night and where the local police only handle one murder a year, if they're fortunate. However, violent death has no geographical bounds, and the town is shocked to find the body of an 11-year-old girl. Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who previously worked on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic expertise to this most recent atrocity. However, the case's seeming simplicity turns out to be a poisoned chalice, as Scarpetta discovers when she visits the Body Farm, an intriguing pathologist's playground.
via the author's webpage