A Rumor of Bones: A Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery - Softcover

Connor, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581821999 ISBN 13: 9781581821994

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

Lindsay Chamberlain has a problem. People keep finding bodies in shallow graves and bringing the bones to her. It's not that she doesn't know what to do with the remains. An anthropologist who specializes in archaeology, she is an expert in the forensic analysis of bones.

It's the bones of missing children, however, that disturb her, and lately she's had more than her share of them. Someone has been abducting young girls in the area for several years, and their remains have recently been found in shallow graves in a nearby wooded area. And Lindsay is asked to identify them.

A lot of strange things have happened since Lindsay and her colleagues from the Anthropology Department at the University of Georgia first began excavating the Indian settlement at Jasper Creek. First came the grave robbers and pot hunters, then the mysterious opposition that jeopardizes their work. After the shady lawyer who has orchestrated some of the trouble is murdered and someone attempts to abduct a nine-year-old girl, Lindsay finds herself in the middle of a crime that took place sixty years earlier. Because so much time has passed, it looks as if the murderer will get away with the crime. Can Lindsay provide the proof needed to bring the killer to justice?

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Bones don't lie.

But forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain had not bargained for this kind of trouble when she signed on with the archaeological dig at the Jasper Creek Site. Who is the mysterious woman unearthed in burial twenty-three?Since she's been in the ground fifty years or so, she certainly isn't part of the ancient Indian village they have been excavating. The trouble is, she's not the only unexpected find. Body after body has surfaced in the town of Merry Claymore, and some of the graves are very fresh.

When the local sheriff asks for her help in identifying the victims, Lindsay can't say no. As she and her crew are drawn into the maelstrom of suspicion, accusation, and terror raging between those who want the truth unearthed and those who want it to remain buried, Lindsay's special expertise with bones could be the death of her.

A "Rumor of Bones" is the first volume in the Lindsay Chamberlain mysteries, which will feature solutions to crimes that did not happen just yesterday.

About the Author:

Beverly Connor, formerly a research assistant in the Department of Anthropolgy at the University of Georgia, is a specialist in bone identification and analysis, lithic and pollen analysis, and field excavation. She has worked at numerous archaeological sites in the Southeast and has completed her work on the Doctor of Education degree. "Rumor of Bones" is her first novel and the first title in the Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery Series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1581821999
• ISBN 13: 9781581821994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320