The Bone Field, Leonard Krishtalka
The Bone Field, Leonard Krishtalka
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The Bone Field

Author: Leonard Krishtalka

Narrator: Leonard Krishtalka, Maureen Carroll

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/21/2021


Synopsis

New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History.Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people’s lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect.In his first case, The Bone Field, Przewalski chases a missing paleontologist across 80 million years of intrigue and death, from a Wyoming bone field of petrified skeletons to the bone rooms of the museum. World-renowned museum paleontologist, Peter Marchand, goes missing while leading a dinosaur dig in the sweltering, desert badlands of Wyoming. He has made enemies from his serial womanizing, ruthless dealings, religious blasphemy, and unorthodox theories. Hired to find him, Pittsburgh private detective Harry Przewalski uncovers a tangle of sexual deceit, betrayal, and scientific fraud. Ultimately, he must excavate the nightmares in his own extinct past to keep from being killed.The first installment in the Harry Przewalski series. The second book in the series is Death Spoke, the third book is The Camel Driver.

Reviews

4.75 Stars - A gritty PD novel, reminiscent of a bygone era & characteristics of a cocktail of Noir/IQ/CB.Strike which works on so many levels. The story is centred around a paleontologist-come-private detective & throughout has a grounding theme of loyalty and betrayal or moreover the deeply rich &......more

Goodreads review by Douglas

When Carnegie Museum paleontologist Peter Marchand disappears from a Wyoming dig site, the Museum calls in former-paleontology-student-turned-private-detective Harry Przewalski to unravel the mystery. Krishtalka's masterful prose and implicit knowledge of his subject matter conspire to weave an unfo......more

the setting - a bone dig, if it's not clear by the title - was the allure of this book for me; i downloaded it on a whim while browsing the read now section of netgalley. and the while introduction is nice, the story quickly becomes a mess of characters with indistinguishable voices, tangled togethe......more