Friday Memes: A Rumor of Bones by Beverly Connor

Happy Friday everybody!

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Beginning:

The mist rose from the uncovered graves like a spirit. Soon the sun would rise above the horizon and burn off the haze, and the site would be alive with the activity of archaeologists. But now, in the predawn hours, it was a mystic place -- silent, stranded between the past and present. This was the time of day when Lindsay loved the site best. She could almost breathe in the past.

Friday 56:

They looked up at Lindsay and grinned, like suddenly the great Lindsay could be mistaken, humbled by the likes of Thomas. Derrick, however, winked his "I'm with you kid" wink at her. The sheriff grinned as if he were witnessing a contest.

This week I am reading A Rumor of Bones by Beverly Connor. This book has been on my TBR pile since I bought it October 17, 2010. Here is the description from Amazon:

Lindsay Chamberlain, archaeologist and forensic anthropologist, is working on an archaeological dig in Georgia. The local county sheriff asks her to identify human remains found recently in shallow graves in nearby woods.

As the archaeology crew excavates, strange things begin to happen. First come the grave robbers and pot hunters. Then mysterious opposition to the dig from a shady lawyer who has been orchestrating attacks against the crew. When the lawyer is murdered and someone attempts to abduct a five-year-old girl, Lindsay finds herself in the middle of a chain of crimes that began with a homicide sixty years ago. After the passage of so much time it looks as if the guilty party may get away with murder - unless Lindsay can uncover the solution.