Unnatural Selection

The Edgar Award-winning author of Where Theres a Will returns with another bonechilling mystery starring "Skeleton Detective" Gideon Oliver. Sue Grafton called Aaron Elkins "first rate." Elizabeth Peters called him "one of the best in the business and getting better all the time." And now hes back in top form. Forensics professor Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to the Isles of Scilly which dot the sea like an emerald necklace thirty miles off the Cornwall coast. Julies been invited here by Russian expatriate Vasily Kozlov scientist millionaire and eccentric. At his home Star Castle he regularly hosts a consortium of guests with differing opinions-which makes for some very heated arguments. While Julies stuck indoors Gideon looks forward to puttering around the Neolithic sites nearby. But before day one is through a newer bone turns up-this tibia is only a few years old-and all signs point to murder. And just as Gideon and the local law puzzle over the bones origin another murder happens at Star Castle. Could it just be bad luck two murders within a couple of years? Or do Kozlovs lively debates have a way of turning deadly?