Gideon Oliver Mysteries Volume Two

Three bone-chilling cases featuring the forensic anthropologist known as the Skeleton Detective, in the Edgar Award–winning series.

Edgar Award winner and former anthropologist Aaron Elkins "thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In books five through seven from the long-running Skeleton Detective series, Elkins brings back his "likable, down-to-earth cerebral sleuth," Professor Gideon Oliver (Chicago Tribune).

Curses!

Mayans ruins in the Yucatán . . . a secret room in a tomb . . . age-old skeletons . . . Anthropologist Gideon Oliver is thrilled to join the archaeological excavation of Tlaloc—until ancient Mayan curses against desecrators of the site seem to materialize as modern murders.

"Another delightful semiserious romp through science and an exotic police culture." —Publishers Weekly

Icy Clutches

On a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, with his forest ranger wife, Julie, the Skeleton Detective pursues a coldhearted killer who buries evidence in an avalanche.

"A literate, amiable story . . . a credible plot, a likable hero." —Kirkus Reviews

Make No Bones

In accordance with the wishes of Albert Evan Jasper, after his demise in a car crash, his remains—a few charred bits of bone—are installed in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating macabre exhibit. A fitting end for the "dean of American forensic anthropologists"—until what is left of him disappears during the biannual meeting—a.k.a. the "bone bash and weenie roast"—of the Western Association of Forensic Anthropologists. Gideon has one question: Why?

Rates four stars . . . Well-plotted, intelligent murder fiction doesn''t come any better." —Chicago Sun-Times