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Skeleton Dance

"There is a small village in France that is well known for pate de foie gras . . .and bones. Boasting the largest concentration of prehistoric fossils in Europe, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac is the home of the prestigious Institut de Prehistoire — where eminent scientists study and squabble ...and perhaps, on occasion, commit murder."

Professor Gideon Oliver knows bones. That's why the mild-mannered sometime-investigator is the forensic specialist the Chief Inspector in Les Eyzies calls when a local dog emerges from a nearby cave carrying parts of a human skeleton — and a not-all-that-long-ago-interred one at that. But murder piles on murder — and surprise upon electrifying surprise — following Gideon's arrival, as his search for answers leads him quickly, into the darkest corners of the scientific community ... and sets him on a shocking trail of death, greed, and deception nearly forty thousand years in the making.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 341
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780380731633
  • Genres
  • mystery, fiction, france, detective, thriller, anthropology, humor
  • Release date
  • 2001