Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery novel of the year. With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau:...

Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is called upon to examine the bones at a remote Alaskan avalanche site. The FBI need his help, and the survivors of the avalanche are keen to know more. Yet someone wants nothing revealed, and may think that murder is the best way to cover the past.

The bones of a Fifth Dynasty scribe turning up twice in garbage heaps and a suspicious death send anthropologist Gideon Oliver looking for clues in Egypt's Valley of the Nile.

When Gideon Oliver is invited to join an Amazon riverboat expedition with a group of research botanists, he anticipates a relaxing getaway from his academic and forensic duties in an exotic locale. But relaxation is not on the itinerary.

Detective Gideon Oliver and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. After Oliver realizes the coroner has misidentified two bodies, he concludes these two mistakes are no coincidence.

A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night. Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended-- but their lives remained linked through work, trouble with the law, and...