Edgar Award-winning series: On a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, the Skeleton Detective pursues a cold-hearted killer who buries evidence in an avalanche.

Gideon Oliver expects to become amicably bored when he takes on the role of ‘accompanying partner’ at a lodge in the magnificent wild nation of Glacier Bay, Alaska, where his forest ranger wife, Julie, is going to a conference. Nonetheless it turns out to be exactly his cup of tea. There is another group on the lodge: six researchers on the memorial trip about Icy Handbags to the site of a thirty-year-old glacial avalanche that killed three of their co-workers. Their leader is definitely TV’s most popular science personality, the unctuous M. Audley Tremaine, who is the only real survivor from the fatal avalanche. But he does not survive very long and is quickly found hanged in his space. If that is not upsetting more than enough, stunned hikers discover human being bones emerging from your foot of the glacier-are they the shattered continues to be of the three who passed away, finally viewing daylight after their two-mile, three-decade journey within the glacial flow?

When the FBI looks for specialist help, everyone agrees how fortunate it is that Dr. Oliver, the famous Skeleton Detective, is usually on the scene. Everybody, that’s, but the person who wants ancient history to remain that way-and who is convinced that murder is the surest method to keep the past buried.