Skeleton Dance

Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: ptE de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The little village, in fact, is the headquarters of the prestigious Institute de PrEhistoire, which studies the abundant local fossils. But when a pet dog emerges from a nearby cave carrying parts of a human skeletonoby no means a fossilized oneoChief Inspector Lucien Anatole Joly puts in a call to his old friend, Gideon Oliver, the famed 'Skeleton Detective.' Once Gideon arrives, murder piles on murder, puzzle on puzzle, and twist follows twist in a series of unexpected events that threaten to tear the once-sober, dignified Institut apart. It takes a bizarre and startling forensic breakthrough by Gideon to bring to an end a trail of deception thirty-five thousand years in the making. Elkins' official website is at Aaron Elkins