The Skeleton Detective puzzles on the theft of a historical little bit of bone-and a student’s murder-in this novel with the Edgar Award-winning writer of Switcheroo.

Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to hold his mind on his beautiful new bride-to-be Julie throughout their English honeymoon, but 1 intrusive question won’t stop nagging at him: Who would want to steal a thirty-thousand-year-old parieto-occipital calvarial fragment?

However someone has lifted this chunk of prehistoric human being skull about Murder in the Queen’s Armes from a musty museum in Dorchester. After that, thirty miles aside, an archaeology student is murdered, increasing pressure and suspicion at a drill down that had already seethed with suspicion, rivalry, and mistrust. Could there be a connection between a sizzling hot bone and a cold-blooded murder? Gideon is called on by the authorities to apply the initial skills that the media have got named him ‘the Skeleton Detective,’ and he reluctantly agrees. Before he’s carried out, his sleuthing will lead him to another murder and will-in one of the most literal and terrifying manner imaginable-sic the canines on him, placing Gideon himself, and Julie aswell, in mortal risk .

Murder in the Queen’s Armes is a suspenseful, fun-filled whodunit by the writer from the Alix London and Chris Norgren series-a celebrated grasp who also ‘thoroughly understands the artwork of the murder mystery’ (The Philadelphia Inquirer).