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By Christopher Golden
Publisher Simon Schuster - (Simon Pulse)
Body Bags
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The first day at college, my professor dropped dead. The second day, I assisted at his autopsy. Lets hope I dont have to go through four years of this.... When Jenna Blake starts her freshman year at Somerset University, shes not only living on her own for the first time, shes moving closer to the father she never really knew. Its an exciting time, filled with new faces and new challenges, not to mention parties and guys and...corpses? Jenna feels torn about her future. Shed like to be a doctor like her mother, but she cant stand the sight of blood. Her father, a criminology professor, thinks he has the answer and sends her to interview for a job with the medical examiner an interview that takes place in the middle of an autopsy. When a congressional aide goes violently insane and then drops dead, the pathology team at Somerset Medical Center discovers that his brain was ravaged with disease and loaded with insect larvae. As Jenna starts her new job, she is drawn into a web of terrifying disease, dangerous politics, and intriguing mystery. And when one of her professors ends up dead, she starts making con

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55845 words55,845 words
272 pages272 pages
Lexile 690LLexile 690L
Published 1999Published 1999

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9780671034924

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