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Title: Skeleton Crew: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel by Beverly Connor ISBN: 1-58182-287-1 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Archeological Mystery
Comment: In 1558 a Spanish galleon headed for the New World with supplies for the Spanish colonies was damaged in a storm and sank off the coast of Georgia.
Lindsay Chamberlain, an archeologist from the University of Georgia, is called to help excavate the site believed site of the ship. They are excavating on the ocean floor inside one of the largest cofferdams ever built for archeology. A cofferdam is a round structure that keeps the ocean out of the excavation area.
Francisco Lewis ("Lewis") is the new head of the Division of Anthropology and Archeology at the University of Georgia. John West is a Native American and friend of Lindsay Chamberlain. His construction company designed and built the cofferdam.
A diary is discovered that is believed to belong to one of the passengers that survived to tell of the ship's voyage and destruction. Harper is translating the diary while the excavation is ongoing. As they discover skeletons in the shipwreck, Lindsay uses the translated diary to help identify each skeleton. She draws what she believes the person would have looked like from studying the skull.
Various accidents as well as 2 murders plague the archaeology project. Only a few select crew members are aware that they are also searching for a possible 2nd ship that was supposed to have sunk in this same area full of treasure. They especially have to try to keep this information from modern-day "pirates" also
searching the waters.
There is lots of tension between the archeologists and the biologists who were on the neighboring island and have been displaced due to this project.
Lewis asks Lindsay to help solve the murders so that the project won't be jeopardized.
I enjoyed this book. I've never read an archeological mystery before so I learned alot about archeology along with enjoying the mystery.
I found the charactes to be likeable and very real. Many times I felt as if I was there with them.
I look forward to reading additional books in this series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Comment: Having read the first five (hoping there will be more to come) Lindsay Chamberlain novels, I have to rate this one as my favorite. Connor had me imagining myself out there in the coffer dam with the crew! The intertwining of the two mysteries works better in this than in Connor's previous books, and I was hooked on both stories. The maps of the galleon and the dam were quite valuable in getting a sense of placement, but they did give away a little more than I would have liked to know going in to the story. Reading these books makes me consider changing my major from English to Anthropology! My only problem with Skeleton Crew was that it ended too soon!
I hope that Beverly Connor has more Lindsay stories to tell and that her publisher has the foresight to print and release them!
Rating: 5
Summary: Connor's Best
Comment: Skeleton Crew, Connor's fourth volume, is the best Lindsay Chamberlain forensics story yet. It benefits in focus by occurring on a small island 5 miles off the Georgia coast, where University of Georgia Athens has a luxurious archaeological project underway to raise a sunken Spanish supply galleon--in dangerous competition with lurking privateers who think it was a homeward bound treasure ship instead. The archaeology of the dig is realistic, with normal procedures and lab techniques actually contributing clues to the modern mystery of suspicious attacks, disappearances, or death. A set of maps helps make the excavation, as well as the adventure, intelligible. Lindsay's fascinating specialized contributions on bone analysis (given with a light touch) actually are focused on the intriguing parallel story of a newly discovered journal written by one of the sailors actually on that ill-fated galleon. That unusual old account, too, has its mysteries, ones gradually resolved during its translation while also becoming entwined with the solution to the modern puzzle. This plotting of two stories, one ancient one modern, each informing the other, is a happy device to animate dry archaeological detail that Connors first used in vol. 2, the memorable Questionable Remains, to equally great effect. And you get two stories for the price of one!
Still lighter in touch than Cornwell's Dr. Scarpetta, Connor's skeleton detective has a number of serious adventures, a spectacular hurricane danger, and many osteological discoveries recreating the lives of the departed. These are stories of character and Southern customs, as well as leisurely unfolding mysteries. It is wonderful to see Connors becoming a skilled writer. Her villains are still a bit obvious, but then again they are often red herrings! I am also so glad Lindsay has dropped her fading beau of the first three novels, Derrick. Their relationship was becoming an annoying distraction, a romance cliche, dysfunctional, and detracting from the image of Lindsay as an intelligent independent woman. Instead we now find Lindsay growing a mature relationship with a Native American antagonist from a previous book, and it is a real contribution to the development of the plot and our interest in these characters. In addition, Lindsay has a new boss--hopefully to become a series character--who adds his slightly devious and moneyed machinations to help speed the plot along. All in all these books are ever more fascinating reading.
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Title: One Grave Too Many by Beverly Connor ISBN: 0451411196 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Questionable Remains by Beverly Connor ISBN: 0373263856 Publisher: Worldwide Mystery Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Past Malice : An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron ISBN: 0380819562 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Grave Consequences : An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron ISBN: 0380819554 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Site Unseen : An Emma Fielding Mystery by Dana Cameron ISBN: 0380819546 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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