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41) The last remains
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern--the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily's Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who was...
42) Birthright
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Curious people want to know: is dashing millionaire Rory Kincaid about to resign his position as the "sexiest man in town"? If Rory decides to step down as the most eligible bachelor in America, millions of women will be left crying on his way to the altar... Rory Kincaid has everyone talking...and the women swooning. After a lifetime of living down his family's scandalous past, the handsome public figure decides to take up the mantle of respectability....
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure"--
44) Haunted ground
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The Irish landscape holds secrets past and present as archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin encounter a mystery when a decapitated woman, found in the bogs, may be related to a recent mother/child disappearance.
46) A baby's bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and newborn baby make it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical crime scene, one that is interwoven with an unsettling local legend of witchcraft and unrequited love. Yet there is more to the case than a four-hundred-year-old mystery....
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
Traveling with Michael Grandville, her former lover, to Thorn Hill Manor, the site of an archaeological dig, Elizabeth is threatened both by Michael's emotional demands and by the strange occurrences that begin almost as soon as they arrive.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family experience various adventures in Egypt early this century while accompanying her husband who is digging in tombs. The boys go undercover in search of a villain while the daughter becomes involved in the local version of women's lib.
50) Skeleton crew
Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Archeologist Lindsay Chamberlain puts her life on the line when she joins a treasure-hunting team, searching for a sunken 16th century Spanish galleon off the Georgia coast. The wreck generates greed and murders follow.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity--plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity's survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below. Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist...
52) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Poirot as...
54) Stone heart
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Maria Dark returns to Connecticut after years of traveling as an archaeologist, she learns that her sister's once-idyllic marriage is now permeated with a dangerously perverse obsession, in a powerful novel of family bonds and home.
55) Relics
Author
Series
Faye Longchamp mystery volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Archeologist Faye Longchamp and her Cherokee assistant, Joe, hope to uncover the mystery of the Sujosa, an ethnic group of mysterious origins that possesses healing powers, but she soon finds herself in a much more dangerous investigation.
56) Strangers
Author
Series
Faye Longchamp mystery volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An archeological trip to St. Augustine, Florida, turns ugly when a woman disappears, leaving behind blood, priceless artifacts, a note asking for Faye's help, and impending danger for her family.
57) Island of glass
Author
Series
Guardians trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three stars--of fire, water, and ice--have fallen from the skies, and now three women and three men have come together to find them. But on the quest for the final star, they'll discover that possessing it won't be enough to stop the destruction of themselves--and of their world... As the hunt for the Ice Star leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his...
58) The tomb of Zeus
Author
Series
Laetitia Talbot mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot arrives at an excavation site on the island of Crete, where she meets the world renowned and disagreeable archaeologist Theodore Russell, but the dig goes terribly awry when the ancient site becomes the scene of an all too modern murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
60) Domain
Author
Series
Domain volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"For thirty-two years archaeologist Julius Gabriel has investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish at the winter solstice of 2012. Julius believes the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the desert drawings of Nazca, the sites of Angor Wat, Teotihuacan, and the Kukulcan Pyramid in the Yucatan Peninsula, the site of the ancient asteroid impact, all represent ancient pieces of a global...
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