Curses!

What a great read! Sucked me in on page one and I would have read it in one go if I'd had the chance. Really enjoyed the author's descriptions of the Central American setting, Mayan ruins, forensic research, archaeology, and ferry boats in the San Juan Islands. The mystery was interesting, though it......more

Gideon and Julie were feeling a tad morose enduring the rains of the Pacific Northwest when they were presented with the opportunity to head for Yucatan and a dig of importance to Abe as well as Gideon as they both had been there before. There is a fairly complicated tale of what had happened in the......more

Gideon, struggling with writing a boring manuscript and with the cold, gray, rainy Washington weather, gets an offer he can’t refuse: a return to a disastrous Mayan dig that was scrapped years before after a scandal left an important priceless artifact missing. Invited by old friend and mentor Abe t......more

Gideon is tired of the rainy gray Pacific Northwest bored with editing his latest manuscript, and wishes for a break when he receives a call from his mentor and friend, Abe, who invites him and his wife to journey to Yucatan to work on a dig. It's a dig with a history for Gideon. Years ago, he worke......more

A newly discovered Mayan codex is stolen by an unscrupulous archaeologist. The scandal closes down the site. Five years later, the site is reopened and an ancient Mayan curse comes to light. Someone seems to be working at bringing about all the disasters of the curse. But Gideon Oliver is there to s......more