Skull Duggery

Name: Skull Duggery
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Aaron Elkins
ISBN: 9781977337580

Author: Aaron Elkins

Series: Gideon Oliver Mysteries #16

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 8 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/31/2019

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

Synopsis

Gideon is happy to be in Mexico with his wife—until he's asked to examine the mummified corpse of a drifter thought to be shot to death. Gideon's findings reveal that the cause of death is far more bizarre. Then he's asked to examine the skeleton of a murder victim found a year earlier—only to discover another coroner error. The Skeleton Detective knows that two "mistakenly" identified bodies are never a coincidence. But if he isn't careful, unearthing the connection between them could make him another murder statistic in Mexico.

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

This 16th in the Gideon Oliver series is set in Mexico where relatives have asked Julie to come and lend some help at a horse ranch. Gideon's life will be at threat as this complex family history story comes to a critical point of revelation unexpected by all but one when Gideon does his analytical......more

Goodreads review by Chazzi

The "Skeleton Detective", who is really creation-anthropology professor Gideon Oliver, goes to Mexico with his wife, Julie, for a little vacation at her family's expat relatives. What was to be spent reading, eating and visiting old ruins turns into mystery solving. Not just one possible murder but......more