Dressed to Die: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel
Beverly Connor
Some skeletons just won't stay hidden.
No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. Still, she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate that had been stored in a kudzu-covered shed on her grandfather's farm for more than sixty years. When other crates are discovered, each containing a stash of valuable artifacts, Lindsay begins to wonder. Could her beloved grandfather, a prominent archaeologist, have been a thief, a looter — even a murderer?
As Lindsay struggles with these troubling questions, she helps a local private investigator locate the wounded grave of Shirley Foster, a missing faculty member. Lindsay is sucked into the investigation, which leads to more questions than answers. Why did Shirley Foster lie to the world about her life? Who wanted her dead?
Secrets and lies loom large in Lindsay's life, both professional and personal, and she struggles to find solutions to the mysteries. When artifacts disappear from the university and she and her students are threatened, the stakes are raised. With her job, her reputation, and her life on the line, Lindsay must find a thief and a killer before the police assume she is ultimately responsible.
"Chamberlain is a fascinating, offbeat and always believable sleuth; settings and supporting characters are equally realistic and intriguing, and the story satisfies both as a mystery and as an entree into the fascinating world of bones and what they tell us about human behavior. Add Connor's dark humor, and you have a multi-dimensional mystery that deserves comparison with the best of Patricia Cornwell." — Booklist
| BEVERLY CONNOR weaves her professional experiences as an archaeologist and her knowledge of Southern culture into interlinked stories of the past and present in her Lindsay Chamberlain mystery series. Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she now lives in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, with her husband, her dogs, her horse, and her cats. Airtight Case is the fifth book in this unique mystery series. |
$7.99, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-58182-246-4 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-246-5 (Hardcover)
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