Aaron J Elkins
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In Tuscany visiting friends with his wife, Gideon Oliver is asked to reexamine the bones of a couple whose deaths were ruled a murder-suicide. His findings do not agree with those of the Italian police.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
For Bryan Bennett, designing hostage negotiation programs is the perfect job-as long as he keeps a safe, theoretical distance. What he can't do is deal directly with kidnappers or their victims, as a result of his own abduction and imprisonment as a small boy. Thirty-some years later, intense nightmares still plague his sleep, and a fear of enclosed spaces prevents him from attempting to travel. So when Bryan's boss asks him to fly to Reykjavik,...
4) Good blood
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Even on an Italian holiday, anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife can't seem to find any R.& R. They are guests of Mrs. Oliver's colleague on an idyllic island. But the breathtaking view and sumptuous food come at a price. The padrone's only child, Archille, has been kidnapped, bones have been found and Gideon must mix business with pleasure
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The bones of a Fifth Dynasty scribe turning up twice in garbage heaps and a suspicious death send anthropologist Gideon Oliver looking for clues in Egypt's Valley of the Nile.
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Detective Gideon Oliver and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. After Oliver realizes the coroner has misidentified two bodies, he concludes these two mistakes are no coincidence.
8) Icy clutches
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is called upon to examine the bones at a remote Alaskan avalanche site. The FBI need his help, and the survivors of the avalanche are keen to know more. Yet someone wants nothing revealed, and may think that murder is the best way to cover the past.
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1985]
Description
While on his honeymoon, Professor Oliver is involved in a murder investigation at a dig site endangering him and his new wife.
11) Turncoat
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
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 worlds away from the horrors of WWII. But when Lily's father, Marcel Vercier, turns up on their doorstep begging her to view an old film, the Simons' cozy life combusts. Lily had always maintained that her...
12) Switcheroo
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
p2015.
Description
A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night. Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended-- but their lives remained linked through work, trouble with the law, and...
Author
Series
Alix London mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Alix London, the art restorer and FBI consultant renowned as the Art Whisperer, can spot a counterfeit masterpiece before the paint even dries. What she can't see is why an elite European art dealer would offer her big money for a little mirror that's no more than a homemade gift from her beloved uncle Tiny. Not that Alix would part with it at any price. But when the mirror is abruptly stolen from her home, she realizes that someone sees more in the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Description
"A brilliant, once-promising art student, the daughter of a prominent New York art conservator, Alix and her world were left in ruins when her father went to prison for art forgery. Now a Harvard dropout with an emptied bank account, she is languishing in a career that has produced little more than a lucky house-sitting gig. Then she meets Christine Lemay, a novice art collector with deep pockets and a handle on a recently discovered painting. Chris...