The Bone Field - Krishtalka, Leonard

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Résumé :
New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History. Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people's lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect. In his first case, The Bone Field, Przewalski chases a missing paleontologist across 80 million years of intrigue and death, from a Wyoming bone field of petrified skeletons to the bone rooms of the museum. World-renowned museum paleontologist, Peter Marchand, goes missing while leading a dinosaur dig in the sweltering, desert badlands of Wyoming. He has made enemies from his serial womanizing, ruthless dealings, religious blasphemy, and unorthodox theories. Hired to find him, Pittsburgh private detective Harry Przewalski uncovers a tangle of sexual deceit, betrayal, and scientific fraud. Ultimately, he must excavate the nightmares in his own extinct past to keep from being killed. The first installment in the Harry Przewalski series. The second book in the series is Death Spoke. The third book is The Camel Driver.

Biographie:
Leonard Krishtalka enjoys two careers--one as novelist, essayist, and author, the other as paleontologist, museum director and evolutionary biologist. As a novelist, he uses the mystery genre to excavate the human condition. His award-winning series of Harry Przewalski novels, The Bone Field, Death Spoke, The Camel Driver, and Native Blood, are detective thrillers, each a human intrigue wrapped inside an anthropological intrigue. Each unravels the dirty underbelly of people's lives--the love, loss, betrayal, treachery, fraud, and murder buried beneath petrified shards, skin and bones.Krishtalka has authored two historical fiction novels, The Body on the Bed, and its sequel, The Body on the Bricks. Both feature crime reporter Mary Fanning, who investigates shocking murders and covers the sensational trials, all amid the social upheaval of 1870s post-Civil War Kansas.Krishtalka has also written a regular column for the Lawrence Journal-World and for Carnegie Magazine, with an acclaimed book of collected natural history essays, Dinosaur Plots.As a paleontologist, Krishtalka has worked on fossil-hunting expeditions throughout western Canada and the US, Patagonia, Europe, China, Kenya and Ethiopia, unearthing and studying the remains of past life and cultures of the planet, including dinosaurs, ancient mammals, and hominids--human ancestors. He has held academic posts at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, the University of Pittsburgh, the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, and The University of Kansas, Lawrence.Krishtalka lives in Lawrence, the central setting for two Przewalski novels, Death Spoke and its sequel, Native Blood, and for both Mary Fanning novels, The Body on the Bed and The Body on Bricks....

Sommaire:
New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History. Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people's lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect. In his first case, The Bone Field, Przewalski chases a missing paleontologist across 80 million years of intrigue and death, from a Wyoming bone field of petrified skeletons to the bone rooms of the museum. World-renowned museum paleontologist, Peter Marchand, goes missing while leading a dinosaur dig in the sweltering, desert badlands of Wyoming. He has made enemies from his serial womanizing, ruthless dealings, religious blasphemy, and unorthodox theories. Hired to find him, Pittsburgh private detective Harry Przewalski uncovers a tangle of sexual deceit, betrayal, and scientific fraud. Ultimately, he must excavate the nightmares in his own extinct past to keep from being killed. The first installment in the Harry Przewalski series. The second book in the series is Death Spoke. The third book is The Camel Driver....