Turncoat

Name: Turncoat
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Aaron Elkins
ISBN: 9781455103447

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/24/2005

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Pete Simons life was everything he ever wished for, with a good home, career, and marriage. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything is about to change, beginning with the disappearance of his loving wife Lily.

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 Lewis

Elkins has written a quite good mystery story. Also, the locations - mainland France & Corsica - are well presented. But the real strength of the book is the powerful description of what it was like in post-war France, as the resistance fighters sought revenge from those they defined as collaborator......more