An Edgar Award-winning mystery featuring the forensic anthropologist hailed as ‘a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth’-from the writer of Switcheroo (Chicago Tribune).

‘With the roar of thunder and the speed of the galloping equine comes the tide to Mont St. Michel,’ goes the outdated nursery song. Therefore when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family members falls victim to the perilous tide, even the aged man’s family members allows the verdict of accidental drowning.

But too quickly, this ‘incident’ is followed about Old Bones with a bizarre breakthrough in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a individual skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper, under the old stone flooring. Professor Gideon Oliver, lecturing on forensic anthropology at close by St. Malo, can be asked to examine the bone fragments. He quickly demonstrates why he is known as the ‘Skeleton Detective,’ providing the police with forensic details that lead them to conclude that these are the continues to be of a Nazi officer thought to have already been murdered in the area during the Occupation. Or are they? Gideon himself offers his doubts. After that, when another of the existing du Rochers dies-this time via cyanide poisoning-his doubts solidify into a one certainty: Someone wants old secrets to stay buried . and it is perfectly ready to get rid of the meddlesome American to make that happen.

Voted among the Impartial Mystery Booksellers Association’s 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Hundred years, and featuring ‘a fascinating final scene,’ Outdated Bone fragments will captivate fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen aswell as readers of Aaron Elkins’s popular Alix London series (Publishers Weekly).