I am reading a book, "Flesh and Bone", Jefferson Bass and I find that the co-writers in this, Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, have some very interesting things to say, from a man's point of view in a 'budding 'romance. It makes the protagonist very male and very human, regarding his emotions.
I am reading very much real life into a murder novel as Bill Bass is a forensic anthropologist who has the "Body Farm" in Tennessee. There is a lot of interesting information outside of the romance, and I finally, after all these years, have learned about how the court reporter's machine works. Jefferson is a journalist.
I look at their picture together, at the back of the book, and they have very kind faces. Bass looks elderly and cuddly (70s?) and one would not think he could be a part of a romance. Jefferson appears a little younger and just reminds me of an actor I saw in a TV show my daughter liked. His TV name was REM.
I like to have my own ideas about what I discern from what I am reading and, In a way, I felt the 'grief' part was somewhat over done for the protagonist -- but I have never, in my life, felt 'grief'.
This is a Critique that I found online and I borrowed this from the Library because I watch CSI........
At the start of the entertaining second Body Farm novel from the pseudonymous Bass (the writing team of forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass and journalist Jon Jefferson), Dr. Bill Brockton ties a dead man dressed in drag to a tree at the Body Farm (a facility he heads outside Knoxville, Tenn., devoted to researching postmortem decay), in an effort to replicate a recent murder. Dr. Bill's just beginning a romantic relationship with another participant in this experiment, Chattanooga medical examiner Dr. Jess Carter. The story veers wildly from fascinating forensics with a high yuck factor to sophomoric and corny romantic byplay, often in the same scene. Fans of the bestselling first book in the series, Carved in Bone, and readers with a penchant for the gross and grisly will take to Dr. Bill, a hero with a big heart who isn't afraid to tackle complicated issues while solving mildly engrossing mysteries. Dr. Bass and Jefferson are the coauthors of Death's Acre, about the actual Body Farm
This man cries. He tells about his feelings, when looking at her, when having dinner with her, his fantasies, while all the while trying to solve a murder in which both have an interest, then her death, his grief, being charged with her murder, and this man is NOT Mister "I HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER". This man is human.
I wonder what I would do if I met a :"human" man?