Aaron J Elkins

Even on an Italian holiday, anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife can't seem to find any R. & R. They are guests of Mrs. Oliver's colleague on an idyllic island. But the breathtaking view and sumptuous food come at a price. The padrone's only child, Archille, has been kidnapped, bones have been found and Gideon must mix business with pleasure.

In Tuscany visiting friends with his wife, Gideon Oliver is asked to reexamine the bones of a couple whose deaths were ruled a murder-suicide. His findings do not agree with those of the Italian police.

The Skeleton Detective is back. A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night. Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended--but their lives remained linked through...

While on his honeymoon, Professor Oliver is involved in a murder investigation at a dig site endangering him and his new wife.