Switcheroo

Name: Switcheroo
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Aaron Elkins
ISBN: 9781511328982

Author: Aaron Elkins

Series: The Gideon Oliver Mysteries #18

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/16/2016

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British, International Crime & Mystery, Private Investigators

Synopsis

The Skeleton Detective is back.A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night.Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended—but their lives remained linked through work, trouble with the law, and finally, it would seem, through murder.Nobody expects that Gideon’s modern-day investigation will turn up fresh bodies. But old bones tell many tales, and the Skeleton Detective has to be at his sharpest to piece together the truth before the body count mounts still higher.Declared “a series that never disappoints” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Gideon Oliver mystery series is for fans of Agatha Christie and Kathy Reichs.

About Aaron Elkins

Former forensic anthropology professor and Edgar Award winner Aaron Elkins can’t seem to let go of the past—he has written his eighteenth book featuring the globetrotting Skeleton Detective, Gideon Oliver. Often credited with launching the forensic mystery genre in the early 1980s with Fellowship of Fear, Elkins has written nonfiction articles for the New York Times travel magazine, Smithsonian magazine, and Writer’s Digest. His books have been made into a major ABC television series and have been published in over a dozen languages. In addition to the Edgar, which he won for Old Bones, his fourth Gideon Oliver book, he has also won a Nero Award and shared an Agatha Award with his wife and coauthor, Charlotte Elkins. Elkins lives in a small town on the Washington coast, where (when he’s not writing) he serves as the forensic anthropologist for the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Crittermom on February 21, 2016

Switcheroo is not your garden variety cozy mystery. It is a unique hybrid that falls somewhere between a cozy and a procedural. Like a cozy, there is little violence and a more relaxed atmosphere, like a procedural the lead (Gideon Oliver) is a professional (a forensic anthropologist) who applies sc......more

Goodreads review by Anne on January 25, 2016

Over the years, I have read several Gideon Oliver books (and other books by the author and his wife), but they have never been a must read. When I see one, I'll pick it up, read it and enjoy it. So, why isn't the series a must read? I think it's because it's so low key for a traditional mystery. The......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 04, 2020

Loved this book as it had all the elements I delight in finding in one story. Just four of the Gideon Oliver books are available through Kindle Unlimited and one was a lemon. I was excited from the first chapter of this book to find the foundation of the murder mystery would be the occupation of Ger......more