By: Aaron Elkins
Genre: Mystery
Berkley
September 1, 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Featuring: Gideon Oliver
288 pages
ISBN: 0425227979
EAN: 9780425227978
Hardcover
Book Summary
No one solves crimes like Skeleton Detective Gideon Oliver.
Gideon and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. A mummified corpse was discovered in the desert and the coroner believed the victim was shot. But Gideon’s examination reveals the victim was stabbed with a Phillips- head screwdriver. Then Gideon is asked to examine the skeleton of a murder victim found a year earlier—only to discover another error. The coroner misidentified the remains as belonging to a twelve to fifteen-year-old girl, when in fact the remains were that of a young woman of twenty.
Gideon knows these two “mistakenly” identified bodies aren’t a coincidence. But finding the connection between them will prove more dangerous than he could possibly imagine—and place him into the crosshairs of the killer he’s hunting.