A RUMOR OF BONES: **Author's First Book**

Connor, Beverly

ISBN 10: 1888952083 / ISBN 13: 9781888952087

Published by Cumberland House, Nashville: TN, 1996

About this Item

First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book and the first forensic Anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain title. "In this carefully constructed debut, the first fiction book produced by a new Nashville publisher, archeologist Lindsay Chamberlain unearths a nightmare. When a child's bones are found outside town, the local sheriff asks for her help in matching them to a missing child. Lindsay explains that the bones belong not to the presumed victim but to another little girl, who, the evidence suggests, had been sexually abused. She puts her excavation crew at the sheriff's disposal at the site of the grisly find, and it's not long before they discover and disinter the bones of more little girls. Meanwhile, back at her dig, Lindsay finds evidence of another modern burial. Although the sheriff dismisses the adult bones, which have been in the ground for over 25 years, in order to investigate the more recent child killings, Lindsay and Derrick Bellamy, her dancing partner and excavation foreman, probe further. The murder of the attorney for a locally prominent family at the site convinces them that the answers to all the crimes can be found among that family's eccentric members." PW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A RUMOR OF BONES: **Author's First Book**
• Publisher: Cumberland House, Nashville: TN
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888952083
• ISBN 13: 9781888952087
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Gore, Bruce
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology
  • ZAAA4278th
  • First Book
  • Women Detectives
  • Z 45
  • Forensic Anthropologist
  • Mystery and Detective

About this title

Synopsis

Signing on with the archaeological dig at the Jasper Creek site, forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain finds herself investigating when several bodies are found that are much more recent than the Indian village they are excavating

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.