Dressed To Die
Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery #3
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Publisher Description
Some skeletons just won't stay hidden. No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. But even she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate in her lab. The dusty crate had been stored in a kudzu-covered shed on her grandfather's farm for more than sixty years. When other crates from the shed are discovered containing stashes of valuable artifacts, Lindsay begins to wonder if her beloved grandfather, who was a prominent archaeologist and her mentor, could have been a thief, a looter -- even a murderer?
As Lindsay struggles with these troubling questions, she is asked by a local private investigator to help locate the wooded grave of Shirley Foster, a missing University of Georgia faculty member. The investigation leads to more questions than answers. Why did Shirley Foster lie to the world about her life? Who wanted her dead?
Secrets and lies loom large in Lindsay's life, both professional and personal. Artifacts disappear from the university. She and her students are threatened. With her job, her reputation, and her life on the line, Lindsay must solve these mysteries and find a thief and a killer before the police come for her.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain faces some very stiff challenges in her third appearance (Questionable Remains, 1997). She consults on the case of Shirley Foster, an art teacher at the University of Georgia in Athens, who has been missing for four years, and very quickly guides the authorities to a grave site on the Foster family's property. After Lindsay helps identify the remains as Foster's, she believes her part in the case is over, but events prove otherwise. In the meantime, her brother Sinjin appears for a visit, bringing some crates that had been stored on their archeologist grandfather's property. Filled with Native American artifacts of mysterious provenance, the crates also yield a skeleton wearing a shirt and tie. Could Lindsay's grandfather have been involved in both artifact smuggling and murder? When the artifacts disappear, the puzzle deepens. In Connor's latest multifaceted tale, the plot is serpentine, the solution ingenious, the academic politics vicious, and Lindsay is appealing. Although the dialogue occasionally is stilted and transitions are sometimes abrupt, this entertaining mystery is as chock-full of engrossing anthropological and archeological detail as a newly discovered burial mound.
