The Dark Place, Aaron Elkins
The Dark Place, Aaron Elkins
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The Dark Place

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/19/2019

Synopsis

Gideon Oliver earns his moniker "The Skeleton Detective" in this riveting entry to the Edgar Award–winning mystery series "that never disappoints" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. And a strange, unsettling tale begins to unfold, for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determines that the murder weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years. And whoever—or whatever—hurled it did so with seemingly superhuman force. Bigfoot "sightings" immediately crop up, but Gideon is not buying them.

But something is continuing to kill people, and Gideon, helped by forest ranger Julie Tendler and FBI special agent John Lau, plunges into the dark heart of an unexplored wilderness to uncover the bizarre, astonishing explanation.

Fans of authors Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen and television shows like Bones will be fascinated by Aaron Elkins's award-winning landmark forensic detective series.

About Aaron Elkins

Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. He won an Edgar for Old Bones, as well as a subsequent Agatha with his wife Charlotte, and a Nero Wolfe Award. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, "the Skeleton Detective."

The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Reader's Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages. Elkins and his wife live on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

Although he has been a full-time writer for some time now, he also remains active in real-life forensics by serving as the forensic anthropologist on the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine on June 19, 2020

Book 2 of this enjoyable series finds Gideon called in as an advisor to try and help the FBI determine if bones that were discovered in Olympia National Park are those of hikers who died over 7 years ago. Of course, Gideon is able to get a lot of information from just the few bones to help to a degr......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 01, 2020

Kindle Unlimited is on sale again...and that is when I sign up. 6 months for $29. Thus...I found a series new (to me) to explore following Gideon Oliver, the "skeleton detective." This seems to have first been published in 1983 but seems fresh to me. I like books with plenty of nature, and this is s......more

Goodreads review by Mystereity Reviews on July 13, 2021

After the disappointment that was the first book in the series, it sure did come roaring back. This is the Gideon Oliver I love. While on an anthropology dig in Washington State, Gideon gets called away to another scene of an ancient Native American burial ground containing several bodies buried in n......more

Goodreads review by Jan C on October 19, 2012

I have bought multiple copies of books before but generally I haven't actually bought books that I have already read. They are usually just sitting on my shelves. Not this time though! I must have read this years ago. But it didn't sound familiar until I got through +90% of the book. It wasn't until......more

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