Unnatural Selection
Aaron Elkins

The EdgarŽ 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?

(A Skeleton Detective Mystery)
Berkley, June 2006
Featuring: Gideon Oliver
288 pages ISBN: 0425210057
Hardcover
$23.95

Also by Aaron Elkins:
Uneasy Relations, July 2008
Little Tiny Teeth, July 2008
Unnatural Selection, July 2007
Little Tiny Teeth, June 2007
Where There's A Will, February 2006
Old Bones, January 2006
Murder In The Queen's Armes, October 2005
The Dark Place, July 2005
Fellowship Of Fear, April 2005
Where There's A Will, April 2005
Good Blood, February 2005
Good Blood, February 2004

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