Supper Sleuths

This list has archaeologists, forensic archaeologists, geologists
and detectives that use their knowledge of ancient (or not so ancient) times to solve a crime or find clues on the way to a satisfactory explanation. In some cases, the main character is professionally an archaeologist but his/her field of expertise is just for background as a crime is committed and solved by them or with his/her help. The dictionary definition of archaeology is the scientific study of material remains (as fossil relics, artifacts, and monuments) of past human life and activities, and or the remains of the culture of a people. This list endeavors to give you an array of choices while “Digging Death.”

Please choose one or more of these titles and come prepared to speak about one of them at the meeting.

Series titles in this list are by publication date.
When not labeled, the main character is an archaeologist.

Thank you to Reference Librarian Beth Radcliffe for her work on this list.

Digging Death: Archaeological Mysteries

Andrews, Sarah – Em Hansen (Geologist)

• Tensleep
• A fall in Denver
• Mother nature
• Only flesh and bones
• Bone hunter
• An eye for gold
• Fault line
• Killer dust
• Earth colors
• Dead dry
• In cold pursuit

Arnold, Margot – Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower
(Character is archaeologist but plots do not always revolve around topic.)

• Exit actors, dying
• Lament for a lady laird
• The Cape Cod caper
• Zadok’s Treasure
• Death of a voodoo doll. Not in NOBLE
• The menehune murders
• Death on the dragon’s tongue. Not in NOBLE
• Toby’s folly
• The catacomb conspiracy
• The Cape Cod conundrum
• Dirge for a Dorset Druid
• The Midas murders

Baron, Aileen Garsson

• A fly has a hundred eyes

Bass, Jefferson – Bill Brockton/Body Farm series
(Forensic Archaeologist)

• Carved in bone
• Flesh and bone
• The devil’s bones

Beckett, Simon – David Hunter
(Forensic Archaeologist)

• The chemistry of death
• Written in bone

Cameron, Dana – Emma Fielding

• Site unseen
• Grave Consequences
• Past malice
• A fugitive truth
• More bitter than death
• Ashes and bones

Connor, Beverly – Lindsay Chamberlain
(Forensic Archaeologist)

• A rumor of bones
• Questionable remains
• Dressed to die
• Skeleton crew
• Airtight case

Connor, Beverly – Diane Fallon
(Forensic Archaeologist)

• One grave too many
• Dead Guilty. Not in NOBLE.
• Dead secret
• Dead past
• Dead hunt

Davis, Val – Nicolette Scott

• Track of the scorpion
• Flight of the serpent. Not in NOBLE.
• Wake of the hornet
• Return of the Spanish lady. Not in NOBLE.
• Thread of the spider

Elkins, Aaron J – Gideon Oliver
(Forensic Archaeologist)

• Good blood
• Where there’s a will
• Unnatural selection
• Little tiny teeth
• Fellowship of fear

Ellis, Kate – Wesley Peterson
(British Detective w/Archaeology degree)

• The merchant’s house
• The armada boy
• An unhallowed grave
• The funeral boat
• The bone garden
• Painted Doom. Not in NOBLE.
• Skeleton Room. Not in NOBLE.
• Plague Maiden. Not in NOBLE.
• Cursed Inheritance. Not in NOBLE.
• The marriage hearse
• The shining skull

Evans, Mary Anna – Fay Longchamp

• Artifacts
• Relics. Not in NOBLE.
• Effigies
• Findings. Due 7/2008.

Foss, Jason – Jeffery Flint

• Shadow in the Corn. Not in NOBLE
• Byron’s Shadow. Not in NOBLE
• Shadesmoor. Not in NOBLE
• Lady in the lake

Foss, Jason – Maddy Crowe

• Blood and sandals

Gear, Kathleen O’Neal – Dusty Stewart
(Anasazi Mysteries)

• The visitant
• The summoning God
• Bone walker

Hamilton, Lyn – Lara McClintoch

• Xibalba murders
• The Maltese goddess
• The Moche warrior
• The celtic riddle
• The African quest
• The Etruscan chimera
• The Thai amulet
• The Magyar Venus
• The Moai murders
• The Orkney scroll
• The Chinese alchemist

Hart, Erin

• Haunted ground
• Lake of sorrows

Hewson, David – Nic Costa
(Only#5 in series)

• The seventh sacrament

Hirschfeld, Corson – Digger Fitz

• Too high

Holland, Thomas D – Kel McKelvey

• One drop of blood

Knief, Charles – John Caine

• Diamond Head
• Sand dollars
• Emerald flash
• Silversword

Lehrer, James

• No certain rest

Lenoir, Frederic

• The angel’s promise

Levi, Peter – Ben Johnson

• Grave witness
• Knit one, drop one

Lewis, Roy – Arnold landon

• A gathering of ghosts
• Most cunning workmen
• A trout in the milk
• Men of subtle craftl
• The devil is dead
• A wisp of smoke
• A secret dying
• Bloodeagle. Not in NOBLE.
• The cross bearer
• Short-lived Ghost. Not in NOBLE.
• Angel of Death. Not in NOBLE.
• Suddenly as a Shadow. Not in NOBLE.
• Shape-shifter. Not in NOBLE.
• Ghost Dancers. Not in NOBLE.
• Assumption of Death. Not in NOBLE.
• Dead secret
• Ways of Death. Not in NOBLE.
• Headhunter. Not in NOBLE.
• Grave error
• Dragon Head

Mann, Jessica – Tamara Hoyland

• Funeral sites
• No man’s island
• Grave goods
• A kind of healthy grave
• Death beyond the Nile
• Faith, hope and homicide

Mayes, Frances

• Swan

McCrumb, Sharyn – Elizabeth MacPherson
(Forensic Archaeologist)

• Sick of shadows
• See Forensic Detectives for a list of this series.

North, Darian – Iris Lanier

• Bone deep

Oakes, Andy

• Dragon’s eye

Peters, Elizabeth – Amelia Peabody

• Crocodile on the sandbank
• See A Love to Die For for a list of this series.
• Children of the storm
• The serpent on the crown
• Tomb of the golden bird

Reichs, Kathy – Temperance Brennan
(Forensic Archaeologist)

• Deja dead
• Death du jour
• Deadly decisions
• Grave secrets
• Fatal voyage
• Bare bones
• Monday mourning
• Cross bones
• Break no bones
• Bones to ashes
• Devil bones

Rose, Karen

• Die for me

Rose, M. J.

• The reincarnationist

Stein, Triss – Kay Engels

• Digging up death

Sturz, James

• Sasso

Sussman, Paul – Yusaf Khalifa

• The lost army of Cambyses
• The last secret of the temple

Thurston, Carol – Kate McKinnon

• The eye of Horus

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