Where Theres a Will, Aaron Elkins
Where Theres a Will, Aaron Elkins
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Where There's a Will

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/15/2019


Synopsis

Edgar® Award–winning author Aaron Elkins's creation—forensics professor Gideon Oliver—has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth." Now the celebrated Skeleton Detective unearths a wealthy family's darkest secrets . . .

Alex Torkelsson has just gotten word: his late uncle Magnus's plane has been found south of Hawaii's Big Island after ten long years. So too have Magnus's few skeletal remains, now handed over to the only man who can fit together the pieces of this mystery . . .

What forensic detective Gideon Oliver discovers could shake the Torkelsson family tree to its very roots. But this time his work is yielding more questions about the past than answers. Questions about the long-ago execution-style murder of Magnus's brother . . . about a mysterious will that benefits—as well as incriminates—its heirs . . . and most disturbing of all: questions as to the true identity of the corpse in the lagoon. As lie upon lie is revealed, Gideon's only hope is to let the bones of the dead condemn the living—before the living take revenge.

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

Really can't mark one of These Gideon Oliver books with one or two stars, but that is my true sentiment toward this book. Call it 2.5 stars. I fall in the minority as I could not embrace the characters, the setting, the mystery. In fact, the mystery kept unwinding like pulling yet another item from......more

Goodreads review by Julie

A Real Puzzler This one had a twist in it I *totally* did not expect! Took by surprise - the entire ending did. There wasn’t as much Gideon in this one as I’d have hoped, but man, he sure gets around on all sorts of exotic vacations and jobs.......more