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    Icy Clutches
    Icy Clutches
    Icy Clutches
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    Icy Clutches

    Written by Aaron Elkins

    Narrated by Joel Richards

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    Edgar Award-winning series: On a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, the Skeleton Detective pursues a cold-hearted killer who buries evidence in an avalanche.

    Gideon Oliver expects to be amicably bored when he takes on the role of "accompanying spouse" at a lodge in the magnificent wild country of Glacier Bay, Alaska, where his forest ranger wife, Julie, is attending a conference. But it turns out to be exactly his cup of tea. There is another group at the lodge: six scientists on a memorial journey to the site of a thirty-year-old glacial avalanche that killed three of their colleagues. Their leader is TV's most popular science personality, the unctuous M. Audley Tremaine, who is the sole survivor of the fatal avalanche. But he does not survive long and is soon found hanged in his room. If that is not upsetting enough, shocked hikers discover human bones emerging from the foot of the glacier-are they the shattered remains of the three who died, finally seeing daylight after their two-mile, three-decade journey within the glacial flow?

    When the FBI seeks expert help, everyone agrees how fortunate it is that Dr. Oliver, the famed Skeleton Detective, is on the scene. Everybody, that is, but the person who wants ancient history to stay that way-and who believes that murder is the surest way to keep the past buried.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 14, 2019
    ISBN9781977337528
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    Aaron Elkins

    Aaron Elkins’s mysteries and thrillers have earned him an Edgar, an Agatha, a Nero Wolfe Award, and a Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award. His nonfiction works have appeared in Smithsonian magazine, the New York Times magazine, and Writer’s Digest. A former anthropology professor, Elkins is known for starting the forensic-mystery genre with his 1982 novel, Fellowship of Fear. He currently serves as the anthropological consultant for the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force in Washington State. Elkins lives in Washington with his wife, Charlotte—his occasional collaborator—who is also an Agatha winner.

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    • 3/5
      A pleasant little mystery.
    • 5/5
      "Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver thought that accompanying his wife, Julie, to a forest rangers' conference in Alaska's scenic Glacier Bay would make for a restful vacation. Realistic enough, however, to know that vacations aren't always restful, Gideon did think he was far enough away from civilization to avoid university politics and the hefty egos that go along with them."But he hadn't counted on the presence of M. Audley Tremaine, TV's most popular science personality. The unctuous Tremaine has just completed his memoirs of a geologic expedition of thirty years earlier, when three people were killed in an avalanche -- and Tremaine himself barely escaped with his life. Now he and the other survivors -- as well as their late colleagues' heirs -- have gathered to review the manuscript and memorialize the victims."When human bones turn up at the avalanche site and the FBI quickly need expert analysis, everyone agrees how fortunate it is that famed skeleton detective Gideon Oliver is on the scene. Everyone, that is, except for the person who wants ancient history to stay that way. Everyone but the person who thinks that murder is the best way to cover up the past."~~front flapThis one was off to a slow start, and I was beginning to get worried. The previous books had been page turners from page 1, but not this one. The book never did reach those dizzying heights, but it was good nevertheless, with his wife Julie and FBI agent John Lau joining the fun. As always, the interplay between Gideon and Julie is lovely (she's a great character!) and between Gideon and John is greatly entertaining.The author obviously has been to this local, given the absolutely delicious descriptions of the scenery and weather. Makes me wish I could visit myself someday.
    • 3/5
      OK entry in this usually better series. Set in Alaska so at least we learn some things about glaciers
    • 4/5
      Nice one. I remembered what he'd missed, so this time through I caught all the foreshadowing as it happened. The story was still fun though.