Dead Mens Hearts, Aaron Elkins
Dead Mens Hearts, Aaron Elkins
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Dead Men's Hearts

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/09/2019


Synopsis

An ancient skeleton tossed in a garbage dump is the first conundrum to rattle Gideon Oliver when he arrives in Egypt. There to appear in a documentary film, he expects an undemanding week of movie star treatment and a luxurious cruise up the Nile with his wife, Julie. But when Gideon discovers a tantalizing secret in the discarded bones—and violence claims a famous Egyptologist's life—he is thrust into a spotlight of a different kind. Plying his calipers as the world's foremost forensic anthropologist, Gideon's investigation of the goings–on leads him through the back alleys and bazaars of Cairo and deep into the millennia–old tombs of the Valley of the Kings.

As the puzzle is painstakingly pieced together, Gideon will find that the identifying traits of a cunning killer are the same now as they were in the time of the pyramids: greed without guilt, lies without conscience . . . and murder without remorse.

About Aaron Elkins

Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. He won an Edgar for Old Bones, as well as a subsequent Agatha with his wife Charlotte, and a Nero Wolfe Award. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, "the Skeleton Detective."

The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Reader's Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages. Elkins and his wife live on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

Although he has been a full-time writer for some time now, he also remains active in real-life forensics by serving as the forensic anthropologist on the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 10, 2020

A trip to Egypt for Julie and Gideon as Gideon is invited to be a presenter in a documentary. There are some enjoyable moments for the couple on this trip, but for the most part there are tense and highly stressful situations that require using all their survival skills to escape death. The book prov......more

Goodreads review by Jillian on November 19, 2020

I’ve given this the benefit of the doubt. It’s probably about 3.75 stars. It’s the first I’ve read of Aaron Elkins. I thoroughly enjoyed the immersion in archeology and forensic anthropology and its part in the mystery. Like some other readers, I found the cast of characters, beyond the inner circle......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 26, 2024

This should have been my favorite of the series, seeing as it is set in Egypt which is the dream of many archaeologists, but it didn't keep my interest in the way the others in the series did. Interesting story, unusual deaths, and Gideon involved in it all amidst the glamour and mystery that is Egy......more