Icy Clutches, Aaron Elkins
Icy Clutches, Aaron Elkins
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Icy Clutches

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/14/2019


Synopsis

Edgar Award–winning series: On a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, the Skeleton Detective pursues a cold-hearted killer who buries evidence in an avalanche.

Gideon Oliver expects to be amicably bored when he takes on the role of "accompanying spouse" at a lodge in the magnificent wild country of Glacier Bay, Alaska, where his forest ranger wife, Julie, is attending a conference. But it turns out to be exactly his cup of tea. There is another group at the lodge: six scientists on a memorial journey to the site of a thirty–year–old glacial avalanche that killed three of their colleagues. Their leader is TV's most popular science personality, the unctuous M. Audley Tremaine, who is the sole survivor of the fatal avalanche. But he does not survive long and is soon found hanged in his room. If that is not upsetting enough, shocked hikers discover human bones emerging from the foot of the glacier–are they the shattered remains of the three who died, finally seeing daylight after their two–mile, three–decade journey within the glacial flow?

When the FBI seeks expert help, everyone agrees how fortunate it is that Dr. Oliver, the famed Skeleton Detective, is on the scene. Everybody, that is, but the person who wants ancient history to stay that way—and who believes that murder is the surest way to keep the past buried.

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 Karen on April 18, 2024

One of the things I love about this series is that each book takes place in a different place; each place with an anthropological bent, lovely scenery, interesting characters, and intriguing situations. This sixth book in the series is no different. Gideon is in Alaska where he expects to enjoy a rel......more

Goodreads review by Mystereity Reviews on July 22, 2021

You know what keeps this series from getting too repetitive? It's the plots and their surprising twists and turns that thwart you from guessing what happens next. Although this one got off to a slow start, thanks to the annoying tv host/author and his group of whiners, but picked up once the murder h......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 12, 2020

Another great book in the Gideon Oliver series that takes our regular characters to Glacier Bay, Alaska. Initially Gideon accompanies his wife Julie who is attending a National Park Service training conference at the Glacier Bay Lodge. He had even begun to wonder if coming along had been a mistake a......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on March 07, 2016

I really enjoy this series. This one's set on an Alaskan glacier, with lots of bone analysis helping to solve a truly "cold case." I enjoy the sympathetic characters and positive overall view, and enjoyed the puzzle/mystery (which, involving murder, shows the most negative of human behaviors and mot......more

Goodreads review by Denise on March 27, 2019

This Gideon Oliver mystery is set in Alaska. Gideon has joined his wife Julie on her working vacation at the National Park Service location near Glacier Bay. The author does a good job of blending the modern-day mystery -- murder of author/T.V. personality – with a decade’s old mystery involving a p......more