Dressed to Die: Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery #3

Publisher Marketing: Some skeletons just won't stay hidden. No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. But even she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate in her lab. The dusty crate had been stored in a kudzu-covered shed on her grandfather's farm for more than sixty years. When other crates from the shed are discovered containing stashes of valuable artifacts, Lindsay begins to wonder if her beloved grandfather, who was a prominent archaeologist and her mentor, could have been a thief, a looter -- even a murderer? As Lindsay struggles with these troubling questions, she is asked by a local private investigator to help locate the wooded grave of Shirley Foster, a missing University of Georgia faculty member. The investigation leads to more questions than answers. Why did Shirley Foster lie to the world about her life? Who wanted her dead? Secrets and lies loom large in Lindsay's life, both professional and personal. Artifacts disappear from the university. She and her students are threatened. With her job, her reputation, and her life on the line, Lindsay must solve these mysteries and find a thief and a killer before the police come for her. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/22/1998 pg. 87 (EAN 9781888952896, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/1998 pg. 1973 (EAN 9781888952896, Hardcover) Library Journal 09/01/1998 pg. 220 (EAN 9781888952896, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Connor, Beverly Charles Connor I grew up in suburban and rural Alabama during the 1940s, 50s and 60s in the little communities of Caffee Junction, Green Pond, and McCalla, just outside Birmingham. All around me were the ruins of ore mines, coal mines and railroads from another time. There were no computers, Internet or cell phones. We walked or rode bicycles as kids and built hotrods as teens. The whole world to us was what we saw right around us. Then I went off to college and everything changed for me. I received B. A. and M. A. degrees from the University of Alabama, attended graduate school at Vanderbilt, met Beverly, my wife of forty-three years, at ETSU and received a doctorate from the University of Georgia where I joined the faculty and founded the Harriette Austin Writing Program and the HAWC writing conference and directed them for twelve years before my retirement. Beverly Connor Beverly Connor is the author of the Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation series and the Lindsay Chamberlain archaeology mystery series. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and geology. Before she began her writing career Beverly worked as an archae-ologist in the southeastern United States, specializing in bone identification and analysis of stone tool debitage. Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she weaves her professional experiences from archaeology and her knowledge of the South into interlinked stories of the past and present. Beverly's books have been translated into German, Dutch, and Czech, are available in standard and large print in the UK, and in ebook format worldwide. We now live in the place where Beverly grew up - Oak Ridge, Tennessee, The Secret City, home of the atomic bomb and the world's fastest computer (or second fastest, it's a race). More information about Beverly Connor and her work can be found on her web site. Please visit her at beverlyconnor.net. (You can visit Charles there, too.)