Unnatural Selection, Aaron Elkins
Unnatural Selection, Aaron Elkins
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Unnatural Selection

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/05/2019


Synopsis

The Edgar® Award–winning author of Where There's a Will returns with another bonechilling mystery starring "Skeleton Detective" Gideon Oliver.

Forensics professor Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to the Isles of Scilly, which dot the sea like an emerald necklace thirty miles off the Cornwall coast. Julie's been invited here by Russian expatriate Vasily Kozlov, scientist, millionaire, and eccentric. At his home, Star Castle, he regularly hosts a consortium of guests with differing opinions—which makes for some very heated arguments.

While Julie's stuck indoors, Gideon looks forward to puttering around the Neolithic sites nearby. But before day one is through, a newer bone turns up—this tibia is only a few years old—and all signs point to murder. And just as Gideon and the local law puzzle over the bone's origin, another murder happens at Star Castle. Could it just be bad luck, two murders within a couple of years? Or do Kozlov's lively debates have a way of turning deadly?

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

Another greatly enjoyed book from the Gideon Oliver series that takes us to Isles of Scilly where Julie has been invited to a conservation forum, a consortium she has attended previously. This is the first visit for Gideon who is welcomed to join her. When Gideon thinks "vacation" it always equals b......more

Goodreads review by Pat

I've been slowly reading all of the Gideon Oliver mysteries in order by when they were first published. This is the 13th and one of the better ones. The series can be quite uneven and Elkins has a real thing about Nazis and WWII that I think intrudes too much into what are really very simple stories......more