A Rumor of Bones

 In the late Beverly Connor's A Rumor of Bones, the first installment in the Lindsay Chamberlain Questionable Remains archeological mystery series, this debut is off to a fantastic start. If you're a big fan of Iris Johansen's Eve Duncan thriller series and Kathy Reichs's forensic archeology thriller series, you'll enjoy this one for sure. Lindsay Chamberlain is an archeological expert at the Merry Claymoore archeological site in Southern Georgia. It all started for her and her crew when they dug up and unearthed bones of a little girl who mysteriously died a few years ago. Then later on, she discovered more shocking clues of another missing little girl's disappearance that happened around the same time. While the sheriff calls in the family to identify her remains, she works on reconstructing the skeleton and sifting for clues to what happened to her. During the Burial 23 site, they discovered a half-century old murder of a missing person. And when word came out, it caused Lindsay and her crew some difficulties to disrupt their digging while Lindsay dealt with old feelings for her dance partner, Derek Bellamy. As more strange occurrences pop up between them and for her, it all reads to the greatest mystery of them all... leading to a dysfunctional rich aristocratic family and its matriarch with a fitting ending. 

This mystery was a pleasant to read and real fascinating to learn about archeology and various tools they use to dig at the sites. I would say it's very educational as well. I cared about Lindsay and how she handled her site crew while dealing with a couple of mysteries that share the same link that even goes back to the hand of time. I also worried about her stretching it out too thin when she had two men who wanted to share her attention. So what's a woman like her got to do in this love triangle? I've found the Merry Claymoor setting at the Jasper Creek archeological site in Georgia very natural and compelling to take you there at the same place they were at to find those hidden artifacts. The theme is you may bury your dead, but secrets have a way to resurface to the top.

If you love nitty-gritty page-turning mystery to keep you in suspense from start to finish with non-stop action, plenty of suspense, mind-blowing sparks of intrigue, and lots of shocks, A Rumor of Bones will keep you up all night and then some!

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