Good Blood

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

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

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

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

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