A review by tobyyy
Fellowship of Fear by Aaron Elkins

3.0

This was a fairly interesting start to a series that I do want to explore further, about an anthropologist turned detective. There were some things about this book that I didn’t like — Gideon himself was rather annoying at times and very sexist & “macho” when it wasn’t necessary — but I did enjoy the twistyturny nature of the mystery and also how nerdy Gideon was at times. I grew up as the child of a professor and spent a lot of time around other professors and I can confirm that professors can (& do) refer back to their specialty area a LOT in casual conversations. So that aspect of Gideon’s personality made sense to me, including his compliments to his girlfriend(?) about her subcutaneous adipose deposits. Nerds, all of them…!