Sara E Johnson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
American odontologist Alexa Glock is in Rotorua, a tourist destination on New Zealand's North Island akin to Yellowstone National Park. Much around Rotorua is sacred to the Maori. Alexa has come for a funeral but while visiting Waiariki Thermal Land she arrives at a crime scene - a man whose head is submerged in the molten mud. With six months left on her work visa and no wish to return to North Carolina, she offers her forensic services to the local...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At first, Alexa Glock's first case as a traveling forensic investigator seems straightforward-her expertise in teeth helps her identify the skeletal remains of a hunter found on the remote Stewart Island in New Zealand. But when she realizes the bullet lodged in his skull was not self-inflicted and a second, shark-ravaged body washes up on Ringaringa Beach, it's clear that something is off. The disturbing sight confirms what locals have hashed out...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A nature trek turns dangerous when the wilderness gives up its bones...New Zealand's remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie, with whom she hasn't spent much time since they were kids. Their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start, though, when she must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons -- most likely M?ori tribespeople -- whose graves have been unearthed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With cutting-edge forensic technology, a stunning setting, and a deepening relationship between Alexa and D.I. Bruce Horn, The Bone Riddle will delight science geeks, armchair travelers, and procedural buffs who like a little romance with their body count.
Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand: On a cliff overlooking the ocean and one of the largest gannet bird colonies in the world, American CEO Harlan Quinn has built his "Plan B"-a lavish estate, complete...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book is a collection of mostly light hearted stories about tactical Naval Aviation off aircraft carriers in the 1960's and 1970's. It is not a history, per se, nor is it like one of the many fine, factual, first person accounts of by other Naval Aviators. The author's impulse was to capture a snapshot of that culture and experience through both oral tradition-stories told by aviators that were too good to be lost; and his own experience. Thus...
Author
Language
English
Description
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive...
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search