Connor, Beverly

Dead Past: A Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation

As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet's traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring the unsolved cold case, and the horrors come to her in her nightmares. She shares her fears with Diane Fallon, who realizes that Juliet's shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes-crimes that Diane intends to uncover.

Dead Hunt: A Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation

Clymene O'Riley is in prison for killing her husband-though Diane Fallon is sure she killed another, and suspects she may have left a veritable graveyard of dead men in her wake. Either way, Diane was happy to help put her behind bars. So when Clymene informs her that one of the prison guards may be in danger from a serial killer, Diane is suspicious.

And when Clymene escapes from jail, Diane becomes the prime suspect in a bloody murder that puts her in the path of an angry killer who wants her dead...

One Grave Too Many

With spot-on details, a smart new voice, and ingenious plot twists, Beverly Connor has been compared to the hottest crime writers on the scene. Now, she ratchets up the suspense with a brand new series featuring one of today's most cunning and complex sleuths: forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon. Her new job as director of the RiverTrail Museum of Natural History in Georgia takes Diane out of the game-until a former love and a murdered family bring her back in.

Dead Guilty

In Beverly Connor's absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. In this latest investigation, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods.

Dead Secret

When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon discovers a trio of decades-old skeletons, she also unearths the key to a mystery that reaches back seventy years in a legacy of love, greed, and murder-and an unearthed family secret that still holds the power to kill.

Dressed to Die: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel

Some skeletons just won't stay hidden.

No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. Still, she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate that had been stored in a kudzu-covered shed on her grandfather's farm for more than sixty years. When other crates are discovered, each containing a stash of valuable artifacts, Lindsay begins to wonder. Could her beloved grandfather, a prominent archaeologist, have been a thief, a looter-even a murderer?

As Lindsay struggles with these troubling questions, she helps a local private investigator locate the wooded grave of Shirley Foster, a missing faculty member. Lindsay is sucked into the investigation, which leads to more questions that answers. Why did Shirley Foster lie to the world about her life? Who wanted her dead?

Secrets and lies loom large in Lindsay's life, both professional and personal, as she struggles to find solutions to the mysteries. When artifacts disappear from the university and she and her students are threatened, the stakes are raised. With her job, her reputation, and her life on the line, Lindsay must find a thief and a killer before the police assume she is ultimately responsible.

A Rumor of Bones (Lindsay Chamberlain Mysteries)

Ever wondered how crimes are solved seemingly without a shred of evidence? What do voiceless victims have to say about their fate? Author Beverly Connor lets her heroine, Lindsay Chamberlain, make a living dissecting the past. In "Rumor of Bones" Lindsay begins to uncover an ancient Indian settlement and she hopes that her work will enable the small town to understand their ancient civilization.Unfortunately, Lindsay also becomes involved in solving the murder of several small bodies, each following a sinister pattern, a pattern too familiar to ignore. Strange events, grave robbers, and pot hunters abound in this archaeological mystery where bones speak volumes of the dead and the living.

Skeleton Crew: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel (Lindsay Chamberlain Mysteries)

Lindsay Chamberlain is at it again and this may well her toughest assigment yet: uncover sunken Spanish galleon before the cofferdam subsides into the ocean and solve several murders while maintaining her relationship with her beau and fighting off theives. "The Angel of Death," as she is "respectfully" referred to, is up to the challenge.

"Skeleton Crew" is the fourth installment of the lauded Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery Series. These hardcover mysteries detail the work of fictional archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain; however, Beverly Connor writes with an exactness and authority that makes her mysteries come alive.

Airtight Case: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel (Lindsay Chamberlain Mysteries)

AIRTIGHT CASE is the fifth book in this unique mystery series centering around Lindsay Chamberlain, a forensic anthropologist living in Georgia. Connor writes with a style much like Patricia Cornwell and has Lindsay solve ancient crimes while fighting trauma in her own life. This series includes, "Skeleton Crew," "Rumor of Bones," "Dressed to Die," and "Questionable Remains."

Questionable Remains (Worldwide Library Mysteries)

Man's eternal quest for gold proves as enduring as it is fatal when forensic archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain unearths a four-hundred-year-old mystery -- and a mondern-day murder. Vacationing in Tennessee, Lindsay studies the bones of a centuries-old corpse hiding a fascinating secret. She's also asked to look into the suspicious deaths of two adventurous cavers whose fatal foray into Hell's Slide spells murder for one family member.

But bones don't lie, and before long, Lindsay knows she's digging up trouble. Someone wants the case to remain closed -- and the mounting threats tell her she's getting closer to the truth. But as murder old and new come together in shocking ways, Lindsay finds herself digging for her life -- to survive the clever trap of a killer.