Good Blood, Aaron Elkins
Good Blood, Aaron Elkins
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Good Blood

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2019


Synopsis

What was supposed to be an Italian vacation for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife turns into a busman's holiday when their hosts' only child goes missing—and nearby construction workers unearth human bones. The family awaits Oliver's conclusions with both dread and cautious hope. But along the way, he'll expose some extraordinary deceptions that lay bare the long-hidden secrets at the dark heart of a highborn family.

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 15, 2020

I have not been reading these books in order and just very recently read another of his centered in Italy, but in Florence. This Italian holiday is centered in Stresa, a resort town on a lake where I have never been. There is some unusual family history that starts the tale, foreshadowing the action......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 30, 2024

In Italy, Gideon and Julie are relaxing and helping out their friend Phil who is a travel writer and tour guide for On the Cheap tours. Phil is mixing business with pleasure, taking the opportunity to visit with his family, the de Grazia family. They arrive at a critical time. The youngest de Grazia......more

Goodreads review by R. J. on June 19, 2021

This almost seemed like two different books., like the author had two ideas but neither was long enough to make a full book so he mashed them together. There was the plot about the boy being kidnapped and the plot about the man being killed but they didn't seem to have much to do with each other, ot......more

Goodreads review by Jane on March 29, 2020

On a trip to Italy with their friend Phil, Gideon and Julie are surprised to learn that Phil is a member of a noble Italian family — and his given name is actually Filiberto. And then his family is suddenly enmeshed in mysteries, when first his teen-age nephew is kidnapped, and then a skeleton is fo......more

Goodreads review by Rita on July 03, 2023

It had been a few years since I binge-read several of Aaron Elkins’ mysteries featuring Gideon Oliver, the “skeleton detective.” Recently, I came upon a copy of another of the books about the professor of forensic anthropology. It takes a while for a victim’s old bones to turn up in Good Blood, afte......more