Aaron Elkins, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-15928-3
Academic infighting, at once comically petty and deadly serious, is the subject of Elkins's terrific follow-up to Old Bones, winner of the 1988 Edgar Award for best novel. This time, celebrated Seattle ""skeleton detective"" Gideon Oliver travels to
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Aaron Elkins. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0238-1
This engrossing mystery from Edgar-winner Elkins (the Gideon Oliver series) takes Val Caruso from New York, where he’s a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to Milan, where his friend Esther Lindauer, the director of the Institute for the...
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Aaron Elkins. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-24788-4
Edgar-winner Elkins’s cleverly plotted 18th Gideon Oliver mystery (after 2009’s Skull Duggery) takes the man “known throughout the world of forensic science as the Skeleton Detective” to Tuscany, where he looks into the apparent murder-suicide of...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Mysterious Press $22 (340p) ISBN 978-0-89296-467-3
Gideon Oliver, the shrewd, witty and self-deprecating forensic anthropologist, is at the top of his form in his ninth appearance (after Dead Men's Hearts, 1994). This tale, populated with a memorable and well-defined cast, finds Gideon traveling to...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-89296-466-6
Anthropology professor, bone expert and renowned ``Skeleton Detective,'' Gideon Oliver makes his eighth appearance, following Make No Bones , in Edgar-winning Elkins's engaging, mainly cozy, series. Not even the idiosyncratic Gideon and his wealth...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19551-3
Seattle Art Museum curator Chris Norgren falls prey to the lure of a newly discovered Rembrandt in this third in a spirited series (after A Glancing Light ). He also topples head-first out of a second-story window, but the nasty fall is happily...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Warner Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40040-4
Forensic sleuth Gideon Oliver discovers that an alleged avalanche victim actually died of an ice pick wound to the skull. PW called this ``well-intentioned but wordy. . . . The repetitive scientific analysis and an overwrought narrative dull the...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Mysterious Press $17.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-89296-378-2
In this seamlessly plotted corker of a mystery, Edgar Award winner Elkins reprises his ``skeleton detective,'' forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver, in a seventh outing that might well have been subtitled ``Whose Bones Are These, Anyway?'' Here...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19278-9
Set in the gossipy, rumor-ridden art world, this thoroughly enjoyable mystery begins with the discovery of a fake Van Eyck and a real Rubens in the Seattle warehouse of an importer of schlock art sold en masse to hotels. Identifying the works almost
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Aaron Elkins, Author Mysterious Press $16.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-89296-377-5
Physical anthropologist Gideon Oliver, earlier seen in Edgar-winner Old Bones , resumes his forensic sleuthing in this well-intentioned but wordy yarn. Having joined his wife on a professional junket to Alaska, Oliver is Johnny-on-the-spot when the...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Walker & Company $14.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5626-8
Anthropologist Gideon Oliver is honeymooning in England when he decides to drop in on a Dorset dig run by his old friend Nate Marcus. The local scientific society is miffed by Marcus's publicity-grabbing theories, and definitely put off by his...
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Aaron Elkins, Author . Morrow $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-019770-4
Best known for the witty, Francophiliac Gideon Oliver mystery series, Elkins here delivers a stand-alone thriller that probes wartime guilt from multiple angles. For history professor Pete Simon and his French-born wife, Lily, Brooklyn in 1963 is...
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Aaron Elkins, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-15927-6
April 1945: the German war machine is collapsing, and the Nazis are frantically crowding their stolen art treasures into a secret salt mine in Altaussee, Austria. In the chaos, a truck from one of the convoys disappears. The driver has deserted,...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14899-0
The third installment in Elkins's spirited series featuring Seattle Art Museum curator/detective Chris Norgren was a Mystery Guild main in cloth. (July)
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Aaron Elkins, Author Warner Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40308-5
Edgar Award winner Elkins's corker of a mystery is the seventh outing for his ``skeleton detective,'' forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver, who attends a professional convention that is disrupted by death. (Jan.)
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Aaron Elkins, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (204p) ISBN 978-0-89296-263-1
Biological anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detectivemost recently featured in the Edgar-winning Old Bones heads down to the Yucatan to the archeological dig of Tlaloc, where five years previously he had been witness to the theft, by the...
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Aaron Elkins, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (197p) ISBN 978-0-89296-262-4
When revered Resistance-hero Guillaume du Rocher drowns in a rushing flood tide off Mont St. Michel, members of the familysummoned by Guillaume on undisclosed urgent businessare already assembled at the domaine du Rocher, where, instead, they hear...
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Aaron Elkins, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-425-22797-8
What sounded like an idyllic winter getaway at relatives' Oaxacan dude ranch turns into a bonesman's holiday for Gideon Oliver and his wife, Julie, in Edgar-winner Elkins's atmospheric 16th mystery to feature the forensic...
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Aaron Elkins, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-425-22176-1
In Edgar-winner Elkins's absorbing 15th novel to feature forensics anthropology professor Gideon Oliver (after 2007's Little Tiny Teeth
), Oliver and his wife, Julie, are off to Gibraltar so he can take part in a conference honoring the...
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Aaron Elkins, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-21530-2
Forensics anthropologist Gideon Oliver's compelling 14th adventure (after 2006's Unnatural Selection
) involves a hot, humid and decidedly deadly expedition up the Amazon River with his friends Phil Boyajian, who heads a budget travel agency,
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Aaron Elkins, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-425-21005-5
Forensic sleuth Gideon Oliver accompanies his second wife, Julie, to an unusual gathering of conservation experts in the Scilly Isles in Edgar-winner Elkins's engaging 13th whodunit to feature the man known as the "Bone Detective" (after
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Aaron Elkins, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-20026-1
In Edgar-winner Elkins's solid 12th whodunit to feature forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver (after 2004's acclaimed Good Blood
), Oliver's Hawaiian vacation turns into a busman's holiday, as he and close friend John Lau, an FBI...
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Aaron Elkins, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-19411-9
Set in the charming village of Stresa on Italy's Lake Maggiore, Elkins's 11th mystery to feature Gideon Oliver (after 2000's Edgar-winning Skeleton Dance
) shows the forensic anthropologist in fine form. Oliver's half-Italian friend...
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Aaron and Charlotte Elkins. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4778-0507-7
In the Elkinses’ lively, well-crafted second caper featuring Alix London (after 2012’s A Dangerous Talent), Ted Ellesworth of the FBI’s Art Crime Team recruits the Harvard-educated art historian to pose as a lecturer aboard the opulent yacht of...
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Charlotte and Aaron Elkins. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4778-2455-9
In the Elkinses' artful third Alix London mystery (after 2013's A Cruise to Die For), the art consultant and conservator examines 28 paintings for the L. Morgan Brethwaite Museum in Palm Springs, Calif. A work she's not evaluating, a large Jackson...
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