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Unnatural Selection Paperback - 2006
by Elkins, Aaron
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- Paperback
The Edgar® Award-winning author of Where There's a Will returns with another bonechilling mystery starring "Skeleton Detective" Gideon Oliver.
Sue Grafton called Aaron Elkins "first rate." Elizabeth Peters called him "one of the best in the business and getting better all the time." And now he's back in top form.
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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Details
- Title Unnatural Selection
- Author Elkins, Aaron
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 281
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2006
- Bookseller's Inventory # 978042521005U
- ISBN 9780425210055 / 0425210057
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.34 x 0.99 in (23.47 x 16.10 x 2.51 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, College teachers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006002173
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
When Gideon Oliver's wife Julie attends a conservation forum on the emerald Isles of Scilly, Gideon tags along, expecting a holiday. To amuse himself, he explores the Neolithic sites there. But instead of ancient ruins, he finds evidence of a very recent murder.
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FOR six days and nights she had roamed, feverish and disoriented, drinking little and eating next to nothing.
