An Edgar Award-winning mystery featuring the forensic anthropologist hailed as a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth--from the author of Switcheroo ( Chicago Tribune ).
Old Bones is the 4th book in the Gideon Oliver Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order..
Voted one of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association\'s 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century, and featuring a thrilling final scene, Old Bones will captivate fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen as well as readers of Aaron Elkins\'s popular Alix London series ( Publishers Weekly ). and is perfectly willing to eradicate the meddlesome American to make that happen. . .
Then, when another of the current du Rochers dies--this time via cyanide poisoning--his doubts solidify into a single certainty: Someone wants old secrets to stay buried .
Or are they? Gideon himself has his doubts.
He quickly demonstrates why he is known as the Skeleton Detective, providing the police with forensic details that lead them to conclude that these are the remains of a Nazi officer believed to have been murdered in the area during the Occupation.
Malo, is asked to examine the bones.
Professor Gideon Oliver, lecturing on forensic anthropology at nearby St.
But too quickly, this accident is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a human skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper, beneath the old stone flooring.
So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man\'s family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning.
Michel, goes the old nursery song.
With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St.
An Edgar Award-winning mystery featuring the forensic anthropologist hailed as a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth--from the author of Switcheroo ( Chicago Tribune )
