Gideon Oliver mysteries
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 2
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Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. And a strange, unsettling tale begins to unfold, for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determines that the murder weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years. And whoever-or whatever-hurled it did so with seemingly superhuman force. Bigfoot "sightings" immediately crop up, but...
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 3
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[1985]
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While on his honeymoon, Professor Oliver is involved in a murder investigation at a dig site endangering him and his new wife.
4) Old Bones
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 4
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2014
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Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery novel of the year. With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau:...
5) Curses!
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 5
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Mayan ruins in the Yucatán . . . a secret room in a tomb . . . age-old skeletons. To anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the renowned Skeleton Detective, the invitation to join the archaeological excavation of Tlaloc promises two months of paradise on Earth. That is, until an ancient series of Mayan curses against desecrators of the site is unearthed. When the first one comes to pass ("The bloodsucking kinkajou will come freely among them"), it is taken...
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Icy clutches , Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 6
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 8
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[1994]
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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.
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 9
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The dead man is the manager of Tahiti's Paradise Coffee Plantation, producer of the most expensive coffee bean in the world, the winey, luscious Blue Devil. Nothing tangible points to foul play behind his fall from a cliff, but FBI agent John Lau, a relative of the coffee-growing family, has his suspicions. What he needs is evidence, and who better to provide it than his friend, anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective? Gideon is willing...
10) Skeleton Dance
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 10
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Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: pâté de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The little village, in fact, is the headquarters of the prestigious Institute de Préhistoire, which studies the abundant local fossils. But when a pet dog emerges from a nearby cave carrying parts of a human skeleton-by no means a fossilized one-Chief Inspector Lucien Anatole Joly puts in a call to his old friend, Gideon Oliver, the famed "Skeleton...
11) Good blood
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
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2004.
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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
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Where there's a will , Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 12
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Unnatural selection , Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 13
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Uneasy relations , Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 15
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16) Skull duggery
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 16
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[2009]
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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.
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 17
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[2012]
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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.
18) Switcheroo
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 18
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p2015.
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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...