Dead Secret

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 400 pages
• Published by: Onyx December 6, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0451411927
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0451411921
• Book Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 5.6 ounces

Product Review
An outstanding seriesdeserves comparison with the best of Patricia Cornwell. -- Booklist, starred review

Calls to mind the mysteries of Aaron Elkins and Patricia Cornwell. -- Chicago Sun-Times

Product Description
When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon discovers a trio of decades-old skeletons, she also unearths the key to a mystery that reaches back seventy years in a legacy of love, greed, and murder-and an unearthed family secret that still holds the power to kill.

Reader Reviews
Beverly Connor has become one of my favorite authors. She keeps the suspense level high while creating complicated plots and sub plots that always leave me guessing. Dead Secret may be her best Diane Fallon (series) novel to date. While cave mapping with friends, an accident reveals a skeleton hidden within the cave for decades. Diane investigates the cause of death and attempts to learn the identity of Cave Doe (the name given to the skeleton). As she works on the first body, Diane is asked to analyze the bones of yet another cave fatality. These bones, as legend goes, belong to a witch murdered centuries ago in an English cave. Diane combines the resources of her crime unit plus those of her natural history museum to discover the identity of both skeletons. Beverly Connor manages to include just enough forensic detail to create interest, but she doesn't bog the plot down with an overload of scientific data. She also throws in a bit of archeology, anthropology, and earth science and weaves them into her tale of adventure and mystery. And what a shocking end to this story.