A Mysterious Review of Switcheroo by Aaron Elkins. A Gideon Oliver Mystery.
Review summary: This makes for a mostly entertaining, relaxing read but it is far from a whodunit-style mystery and, given the premise of Gideon Oliver being the "Skeleton Detective", he really doesn't do much skeletal detecting. Overall, a pleasant entry in this long-running series, but not a terribly memorable one. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Switcheroo
Aaron Elkins
A Gideon Oliver Mystery
Thomas & Mercer (February 2016)
Publisher synopsis: A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night.
Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended — but their lives remained linked through work, trouble with the law, and finally, it would seem, through murder.
Nobody expects that Gideon's modern-day investigation will turn up fresh bodies. But old bones tell many tales, and the Skeleton Detective has to be at his sharpest to piece together the truth before the body count mounts still higher.
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