SummaryThe EdgarŽ Award-winning author of Where There's a
Will returns with another bonechilling mystery starring
"Skeleton Detective" Gideon Oliver.
Forensics professor Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to
the Isles of Scilly, which dot the sea like an emerald
necklace thirty miles off the Cornwall coast. Julie's been
invited here by Russian expatriate Vasily Kozlov, scientist,
millionaire, and eccentric. At his home, Star Castle, he
regularly hosts a consortium of guests with differing
opinions—which makes for some very heated arguments.
While Julie's stuck indoors, Gideon looks forward to
puttering around the Neolithic sites nearby. But before day
one is through, a newer bone turns up—this tibia is
only a few years old—and all signs point to murder. And
just as Gideon and the local law puzzle over the bone's
origin, another murder happens at Star Castle. Could it just
be bad luck, two murders within a couple of years? Or do
Kozlov's lively debates have a way of turning deadly?
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