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1) Birthright
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Overseeing the excavation of an ancient skeleton at a small-town construction site, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook copes with accidents and rumors that the project is cursed, a situation that is complicated by a stranger's claims about her past.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a caf�e, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the caf�e.
3) The survivor
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
4) The whisper
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After surviving a brutal attack in Ireland, archaeologist Sophie Malone discovers that the fabled Celtic treasure she has been searching for is now in the hands of a serial killer who is using ancient rituals to satisfy a lust for violence--a discovery that causes her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Assisting with the investigation of bones found near England's Saltmarsh region, archaeologist Ruth Galloway discovers that the remains are bizarrely linked to a case involving a disturbed anonymous letter-writer and a missing child.
Author
Series
Eve Duncan volume 28
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships-revealing...
7) After dark
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hours, 23 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life is tough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work in Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, a very low budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn't going well. Stuff keeps happening. Take the dead body that she discovered in the sarcophagus exhibit. Who needed that? Finding out that her new client, Emmett London,...
10) The Janus stone
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Still banned from exploring the Valley of the Kings, Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his wife Amelia Peabody--the intrepid amateur sleuth--are enjoying the summer tranquility of their English home. And then they're visited by two men who want their help on a daring mission to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant.