Skeleton Dance

Name: Skeleton Dance
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Aaron Elkins
ISBN: 9781977337566

Author: Aaron Elkins

Series: Gideon Oliver Mysteries #10

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/03/2019

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, International Crime & Mystery

Synopsis

Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: pâté de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The little village, in fact, is the headquarters of the prestigious Institute de Préhistoire, which studies the abundant local fossils. But when a pet dog emerges from a nearby cave carrying parts of a human skeleton—by no means a fossilized one—Chief Inspector Lucien Anatole Joly puts in a call to his old friend, Gideon Oliver, the famed “Skeleton Detective.”

Once Gideon arrives, murder piles on murder, puzzle on puzzle, and twist follows twist in a series of unexpected events that threaten to tear the once sober, dignified Institut apart. It takes a bizarre and startling forensic breakthrough by Gideon to bring to an end a trail of deception thirty-five thousand years in the making.

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 19, 2020

I have brought myself back into alignment to read the remaining books in order. I loved this one that has so much about the study of prehistoric man and is centered in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France. This location is going on my list for a visit when this COVID virus crisis is over. I am hoping......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on March 20, 2008

A great forensic anthopoligist mystery. The main character (Gideon Oliver) is represented as someone who I think I'd really like. I know it's shallow of me, but if I don't even like the main character, I rarely like the book. The science side appeals to my logical nature, and the plot is well writte......more

Goodreads review by Mystereity Reviews on July 02, 2021

This is the second book I’ve read in this series and I have to concede that I am now a Gideon fan girl. Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver, “The Skeleton Doctor" as he’s known in the media, returns to France at the request of French police detective Joly when a local dog brings home human bones. A......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 28, 2024

Gideon is on sabbatical, working on a book about famous anthropological hoaxes so he and his wife Julie have planned a little European excursion to do some research and relax. Their schedule is unset before they leave Washington state when Gideon's friend, Inspector Lucien Joly, calls and asks for h......more