Old Bones Audiobook (Free)

An Edgar Award-winning secret featuring the forensic anthropologist hailed as ‘a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth’-from the writer of Switcheroo (Chicago Tribune).

‘With the roar of thunder and the speed of the galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel,’ goes the outdated nursery song. So when the aged patriarch from the du Rocher family falls victim towards the perilous tide, actually the old man’s family allows the verdict of unintentional drowning.

But prematurely, this ‘incident’ is followed about Old Bones with a bizarre finding in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a individual skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper, beneath the old stone flooring. Teacher Gideon Oliver, lecturing on forensic anthropology at close by St. Malo, is asked to examine the bones. He quickly demonstrates why he is referred to as the ‘Skeleton Detective,’ providing the police with forensic information that cause them to conclude that these are the continues to be of the Nazi officer believed to have already been murdered in the area during the Job. Or are they? Gideon himself offers his doubts. Then, when another of the current du Rochers dies-this time via cyanide poisoning-his doubts solidify into a solitary certainty: Someone wants old secrets to stay buried . and is perfectly willing to get rid of the meddlesome American to create that happen.

Voted one of the Unbiased Secret Booksellers Association’s 100 Preferred Mysteries of the 20th Century, and featuring ‘a exciting final scene,’ Aged Bone fragments will captivate fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen aswell as readers of Aaron Elkins’s well-known Alix London series (Publishers Regular).