Aaron Elkins

Aaron Elkins
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Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist and professor who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, “the Skeleton Detective.” There are fifteen published titles to date in the series. The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages.

Mr. Elkins won the 1988 Edgar Award for best mystery of the year for Old Bones, the fourth book in the Gideon Oliver Series. He and his cowriter and wife, Charlotte, also won an Agatha Award, and he has also won a Nero Wolfe Award. Mr. Elkins lives on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with Charlotte.

Books By Aaron Elkins (17 Books)

Dead Men's Hearts
Loot
Icy Clutches
The Dark Place
Murder in the Queen's Armes
Curses!
A Glancing Light
Twenty Blue Devils

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Skeleton Dance
Old Bones
Old Scores
Turncoat
A Deceptive Clarity
Fellowship of Fear
Make No Bones
The Gideon Oliver Mysteries Volume One
The Gideon Oliver Mysteries Volume Two

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