Aaron J Elkins
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Aaron Elkins has been hailed as "a master" (The Dallas Morning News) for his Edgarʼ Award-winning Gideon Oliver mysteries. Now, in an original new novel, he illustrates how quickly everything can go wrong when you ask: What's the worst that can happen? 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,...
6) Good blood
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
While vacationing on an idyllic Italian island, anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife find themselves caught up in a case of kidnapping and murder when the local padrone's only child is abducted, and Gideon joins the investigation.
9) Loot
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Stumbling across a rare painting from the fabled Nazi truck that disappeared while transporting looted treasure in 1945, ex-curator Ben Revere must journey to Europe and discover the truth about the Nazi truck before a half-century of hatred, revenge, and betrayal destroys him.
10) The dark place
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Turncoat
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he ever wanted: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything is about to change. It starts with the appearance of an old man at his door, ranting madly about money, death, and forgiveness. The man is a stranger to Pete--but not to his wife Lily. Only later does the truth come...
13) Curses!
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 by all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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:...
17) Skeleton dance
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 10
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The tenth book in the Gideon Oliver series. Les Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: pate de foie gras, truffles, and ancient bones. This small French village is home to the largest concentration of prehistoric fossils in Europe and headquarters of the prestigious Institut de Prehistoire, which studies them. So when the local police inspector, Lucien Anatole Joly, finds reason to suspect foul play, he places a call to his old friend Gideon Oliver,...
Author
Series
Chris Norgren mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It is a headline-making story: the discovery of a previously unknown Rembrandt. René Vachey, the iconoclastic art dealer who claims to have uncovered it, wants to make a gift of it to the Seattle Art Museum, but curator Chris Norgren is wary. Vachey is notorious in art circles for perpetrating scandalous shams; not for profit but for the sheer fun of embarrassing the elite and snobbish "experts" of the art establishment. And thanks to the web of...
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. Stimulating courses to teach, a decent stipend, all expenses paid, plenty of interesting European travel ... What's not to like? It does not take him long to find out. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black-clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel room...
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