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1) The survivor
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
Author
Series
Nora Kelly volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a caf�e, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the caf�e.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I said, "That's a great title for a novel." It was only after he began to explain what it actually was that I realized what I needed to write about - the construct of time, and love, and life, and death"--
Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing....
5) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Responding to the promise of a hefty donation from an eccentric billionaire with space travel ambitions, the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute excavates the site of the 1947 Roswell incident and immediately uncovers two unknown murder victims.
Author
Series
Nora Kelly volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer"--
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Howard Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
479 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a controversial American priest is elected pope, archaeologist Jack Cane and an Israeli agent must find a mysterious Dead Sea Scroll which references two messiahs, a prophecy which is causing a political and religious crisis and placing their lives in danger.
Author
Series
Eve Duncan volume 28
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships-revealing...
10) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...