Professor Simon Shaw encounters his oldest, coldest corpse yet--14,000 year old Uwharrie Man--the center of a murderous struggle for ownership of his bones that has already claimed one victim. Are there more to come? "Keep a careful eye on fun Shell Game. As a plotter of whodunnits, (Shaber's) hard to beat." -- Wilmington Star-News, May 6 2007"great characters, flawless plotting and top-notch writing." -- Mystery News--April-May 2007 "...reveals (Shaber's)...
Sarah R. Shaber's SHELL GAME is a cozy mystery with a North Carolina flavor. Familiar North Carolinian landmarks and names endear this mystery to anyone who has a soft spot for the Tar Heel state. Archeology takes the reader from the halls of academia and a small Raleigh college to local politics, the unusual Native American history in Robeson county, all the way to the wilderness of the Nantahala National Forest. Sarah...
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I've been a fan of Sarah Shaber's Simon Shaw series since it began with "Simon Says". This most recent installment is up to her usual standard. I am sorry that she killed off Simon's friend David Morgan (this is not a spoiler - the first sentence of the book is "Simon knew instantly that someone he cared about was dead.") but the story is, as always, well plotted and well told. Cozy mystery readers who have not yet met...
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When the Chairman of his department and a colleague are waiting outside his room at the college, he knows that someone he cared about has died. His intuition proves correct when they tell him that his close friend archeologist David Morgan past away. Police friend Detective-Sergeant Otis Gates tells him that David was murdered and when Simon Shaw examines the house he tells the detective that David was killed with an amethyst...
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