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A review by psalmcat
Dead Men's Hearts by Aaron Elkins
3.0
I just rediscovered this book, which I finished about a week ago.
This is, as the cover says, a Gideon Oliver mystery, set in Egypt. So you can't go wrong there, for me. Bones and pharoahs = cool.
Gideon is in Egypt providing commentary for a documentary but really it's more of a vacation for him and Julie. Of course, a body is unearthed in an old garbage pile--not unusual in Egypt, and the presumption is that it is something from a museum collection that was mishandled several decades ago. The weird thing is that the bones disappear...and then reappear miles away in a different garbage heap. In between, one of the other members of the crew for the documentary falls overboard on a Nile cruise and drowns.
By the end, a crazy person is chasing Julie and Gideon around the desert shooting at them. Gideon outwits him and solves everything.
I need to switch authors for awhile. These are all starting to read the same. Still, the bone info is always fun, and I do like Gideon. The rest of the characters are right out of central casting, but not in a bad way, or at least not always.
This is, as the cover says, a Gideon Oliver mystery, set in Egypt. So you can't go wrong there, for me. Bones and pharoahs = cool.
Gideon is in Egypt providing commentary for a documentary but really it's more of a vacation for him and Julie. Of course, a body is unearthed in an old garbage pile--not unusual in Egypt, and the presumption is that it is something from a museum collection that was mishandled several decades ago. The weird thing is that the bones disappear...and then reappear miles away in a different garbage heap. In between, one of the other members of the crew for the documentary falls overboard on a Nile cruise and drowns.
By the end, a crazy person is chasing Julie and Gideon around the desert shooting at them. Gideon outwits him and solves everything.
I need to switch authors for awhile. These are all starting to read the same. Still, the bone info is always fun, and I do like Gideon. The rest of the characters are right out of central casting, but not in a bad way, or at least not always.