Mystery Women Authors

Beverly Connor

Biography

Beverly Connor is seriously into bones and mysteries - Click here to read more about Beverly Connor.

Books

Dr Lindsay Chamberlain Mysteries

Airtight Case

Returning from a conference, archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain is captured on a lonely stretch of highway and buried alive. She escapes, recovers from amnesia, and joins a dig at a pioneer settlement in the Smoky Mountains. Everything is fine until it appears that there is a haunted house on the settlement, and its ghosts are after Lindsay. Plot and pace are even tighter here than in Connor's last Chamberlain novel, Skeleton Crew. All of the regular characters show continued growth as they tangle with two of the meanest killers imaginable. The mystery itself proves difficult to solve, and it is nicely incorporated with poignant profiles of mountain people, an appealing ghost story, and some fascinating reflections on amnesia. As always, the archaeological details--whether the trappings of a traditional dig or the lowdown on the latest space-age tools--are both integral to the action and fascinating in themselves. Another winner in a consistently strong series. John Rowen Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Published Cumberland House 2000

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Skeleton Crew

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!

Published Cumberland House 1999

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Dressed to Die

Forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain faces some very stiff challenges in her third appearance (Questionable Remains,1997). She consults on the case of Shirley Foster, an art teacher at the University of Georgia in Athens, who has been missing for four years, and very quickly guides the authorities to a grave site on the Foster family’s property. After Lindsay helps identify the remains as Foster’s, she believes her part in the case is over, but events prove otherwise. In the meantime, her brother Sinjin appears for a visit, bringing some crates that had been stored on the archeologist grandfather’s property. Filled with Native American artifacts of mysterious provenance, the crates also yield a skeleton wearing a shirt and tie. Could Lindsay’s grandfather have been involved in both artifact smuggling and murder? When the artifacts disappear, the puzzle deepens. In Connor’s latest multifaceted tale, the plot is serpentine, the solution ingenious, the academic politics vicious, and Lindsay is appealing. Although the dialogue occasionally is stilted and transitions are sometimes abrupt, this entertaining mystery is as chock-full of engrossing anthropological and archeological detail as a newly discovered burial mound. Publishers Weekly (June 22, 1998)  (From Amazon.com)

Published Cumberland House 1998

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A Rumor of Bones

Forensic anthropologist Dr Lindsay Chamberlain finds herself unwillingly drawn into contemporary issues when her discovery of a chain of modern corpses at a burial ground involves her in local murders. As she and her crew are increasingly drawn into the community's terror and drama, tension mounts in this excellent murder mystery. (From Midwest Book Review)

Published Cumberland House 1996

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Questionable Remains

Dr. Lindsay Chamberlain is a renowned expert on forensic anthropology, a subject that she teaches at a Georgia university. Because of her connections and well deserved fame, Sheriff Dean Howard from nearby Cordwain asks Lindsay to look at a skeleton recently uncovered on the Miles and Grace Lambert farm. Lindsay arrives and quickly concludes that the bones are not of this century, but mysterious anyway.

She stays overnight at the farm. Grace asks her to look into the two year old death of her brother, Ken, who she believes was murdered by his spouse for insurance money. Ken and two other men died in a cave-in that sealed them inside the cave. Lindsay reluctantly agrees to investigate. She quickly realizes that the official inquiry was either poorly handled or was a cover-up. However, someone wants the case to remain closed even if it means killing Lindsay and anyone else assisting her on the investigation.

Published Cumberland House 1997

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