Skull Duggery
Aaron Elkins

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.

(A Skeleton Detective Mystery #16)
Berkley (Prime Crime), September 2009
ISBN-10: 0425227979
ISBN-13: 9780425227978
288 pages Hardcover
$24.95

Also by Aaron Elkins:
Dying on the Vine, December 2012
The Worst Thing, August 2012
The Worst Thing, May 2011
Skull Duggery, August 2010
Uneasy Relations, August 2009
Little Tiny Teeth, July 2008
Uneasy Relations, July 2008
Unnatural Selection, July 2007
Little Tiny Teeth, June 2007
Unnatural Selection, June 2006
Where There's A Will, February 2006
Old Bones, January 2006
Murder In The Queen's Armes, October 2005
The Dark Place, July 2005
Where There's A Will, April 2005
Fellowship Of Fear, April 2005
Good Blood, February 2005
Good Blood, February 2004

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