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Chargement... Dead Secret (édition 2012)par Beverly Connor (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreDead Secret (Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation, No. 3) par Beverly Connor
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Dead Secret 4.5 Stars In this installment, Forensic Anthropologist, Diane Fallon, and her team discover a mummified corpse while caving, which sets in motion a series of chilling events culminating in the revelations of a decades old murder that has deadly consequences in the present. An action packed and intricate plot with characters that come to life on the pages. The forensic details are fascinating and contribute significantly to the engrossing storyline without being excessive or redundant. Diane and her team are engaging and we also get some interesting insight into her background - glad I don't have her family. All in all, a thoroughly entertaining read. Beverly Connor manages to include just enough forensic detail to create interest, but she doesn't bog the plot down with an overload of scientific data. She also throws in a bit of archaeology, anthropology, and earth science and weaves them into her tale of adventure and mystery. And what a shocking end to this story. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Thriller.
HTML:??Call[ing] to mind the forensic mysteries of Aaron Elkins and Patricia Cornwell? (Chicago Sun-Times), Beverly Connor??s spellbinding series proves that the dead do tell tales??and reveal secrets that can threaten the living in the most chilling of ways? In the depths of an unmapped cave, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon makes an astonishing discovery: the decades-old skeleton of a caving victim. Soon, the remains of two more bodies are found??one in an old car submerged in the waters of an abandoned quarry, another buried in the Georgia woods. At first, with nothing to link the dissimilar victims except desiccated bones, Diane can??t fathom the connection. But someone in her shadow does. It??s the key to a mystery that reaches back seventy years in a heritage of love, greed, and murder??and an unearthed family secret that sti Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Diane and her mixed bag of museum staff and criminal investigators finally manage to have a recreational caving trip - still trying to map the unexplored cave on a neighbouring land. Something that in the UK wouldn't happen, anything that open would have been well explored by now, but the US is more sparsely populated. Diane is in the lead of course when the floor falls away under her. A very very rare occurrence (that caused a major rescue only a few months ago, so it does happen). Fortunately she barely fell any distance, but discovered a new chamber - that contained a mummified body. It hadn't come in the way she did! But the first priority is to get him out and formally recorded. After that perhaps they can finish exploring. Meanwhile having bring donated an Egyptian mummy, the next offering to come their way is skeleton from a british cave, thought to be a witch - and the local witch's coven want the remains to go back to them instead. And life goes on - with funerals of relatives and museum donors. Mike and Diane and attend, but both are stabbed. Suddenly a few bizarre instances are turning much nastier. Diane is summoned away to deal with family emergency, there's a break-in and some more threats.
Given all their injuries there's no more caving, but eventually the strands are woven together, evidence from the bodies along with some very imaginative 'database searching' provides some identifications and then everything wraps up quickly. It's not a guessable mystery, as the story is hugely contrived but it's well worked through with attention to detail, and believable mistakes and motivations. ( )