Archaeology Stars

Authors to know:

• Dana Cameron
• Beverly Connor
• Kate Ellis
• Erin Hart
• Elizabeth Peters

Fiction & Crime Fiction

• Islands of Silence
  Author: Booth, Martin
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312268041 Date: 2003
  Kirkus
  From the author of the Booker shortlisted Industry of Souls comes a gripping novel of a World War I veteran who shuts himself off from the world.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Crime Fiction Stars
  Updated 10.31.02
• Wrack
  Author: Bradley, James
  Publisher: Holt $ 25 ISBN: 0805061088 Date: 1999
  PW
  David Norfolk, an archeologist searching for a Portuguese ship, long rumored to be buried beneath the sand dunes of Southern Australia, unearths instead the body of a man murdered 50 years ago.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Tomb of Zeus
  Author: Cleverly, Beverly
  Publisher: Delta $ 13 ISBN: 9780385339902 Date: 2007
  LJ
  Headstrong Laetitia Talbot, Cleverly's precocious new heroine, is an aspiring archaeologist with a passion for adventure and mystery. Its 1928, and Letty arrives at an archaeological dig on the isle of Crete. But something goes amiss, and the site becomes a stage for murder.
  Updated 10.2.07
  
• Skeleton Crew
  Author: Connor, Beverly
  Publisher: Cumberland House $ 20.95 ISBN: 1-58182-042-9 Date: 1999
  Booklist
  In an adventure fraught with modern-day pirates, a hurricane, and a dead body, Lindsay Chamberlain dives for sunken treasure and attempts to solve a 440-year-old murder mystery.
  Suggested Reading: Crime Scene Investigations
• Merchant's House
  Author: Ellis, Kate
  Publisher: St Martins Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312205627 Date: 1999
  Kirkus
  A marvelous British procedural featuring a detective and amateur archeologist Wesley Peterson, a man whose unusual talents will be needed to solve two brutal murders - one of them over 400 years old.
  
• Lord of the Dark Lake
  Author: Faust, Ron
  Publisher: Forge $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312855354 Date: 1996
  Booklist
  Alexander Krisos throws a week-long party every summer on his private Greek island. Attendees usually include European nobility, Texas oilmen, ballerinas and bullfighters, millionaire politicos in exile, Japanese potentates, artists, and gorgeous models. People would kill to be invited to these lavish parties - but no one really expects murder to become part of the festivities. Jay Chandler, an archeologist excavating an ancient temple of Poseidon and a friend of the Krisos family, finds himself caught up in the gathering's sinister events. Fearful that he may be the next victim, Jay must play the part of a modern Theseus as he faces a contemporary minotaur down in the island's vast caverns. From the party's start under the bright Aegean sky to the finale in the underworld of dark caves, Krisos' guests are pulled to their destinies by a force as powerful as any invoked by ancient Greek gods. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Haunted Ground: A Crime Novel
  Author: Hart, Erin
  Publisher: Scribner $ 24 ISBN: 0743235053 Date: 2003
  Library JournalBooklist
  This dazzling crime novel debut--already an international sensation--is from a gifted author who combines rich atmosphere with archeology, history, and extraordinary forensic detail.
  Suggested Reading: Fiction & Mystery Debuts | Crime Scene Investigations
  Updated 5.14.03
• The Seventh Sacrament
  Author: Hewson, David
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 22 ISBN: 9780385339568 Date: 2007
  Booklist
  Critically acclaimed author Hewson sets the standard when it comes to twisting plots and powerful characters. Now, in a superb crime thriller with a Da Vinci Code edge, his cops confront an evil older than Christianity--and a killer with less-than-godly motivations.
  Updated 6.4.07
  
• The Moon Tunnel
  Author: Kelly, Jim
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 031234922x Date: 2005
  PWBooklist
  Looking for buried Anglo-Saxon treasure on-site at a former POW camp, journalist Philip Dryden is on hand when excavators find the skeletal remains of a man trapped in an underground tunnel. No one can explain the bullet hole in his forehead and the direction of his body: he was crawling in, not out.
  Suggested Reading: Cold Cases
  Updated 9.23.05
• Lost in Translation
  Author: Mones, Nicole
  Publisher: Delacorte List Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385319347 Date: 1998
  PWKirkus
  In a novel of searing intelligence and startling originality, Mones has created an unforgettable story of love and desire, of family ties and human conflict, and of one woman's struggle to lose herself in a foreign land - only to discover her home, her heart, and herself.
• Tomb of the Golden Bird
  Author: Peters, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Morrow $ 25.95 ISBN: 0060591803 Date: 2006
  PW
  Amelia Peabody and her family of archaeologists are back in this new mystery in which Emerson and Ramses are close to unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for--the tomb of King Tutankhamon.
  Suggested Reading: Egypt
  Updated 2.13.06
• Cabinet of Curiousities
  Author: Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child
  Publisher: Warner $ 25.95 ISBN: 0446530220 Date: 2002
  PW
  The "New York Times" bestselling authors of The Ice Limit and The Relic return with another nerve-shattering thriller. In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made--an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims.
  Updated 5/9/02

Nonfiction

• The Road to Ubar: Searching for the Atlantis of the Sands
  by Nicholas Clapp
  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 039587596x $24
  BL Kirkus
  The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as "the many columned city whole like has not been built in the whole land" . . . Over the centuries, many people searched unsuccessfully . . . Then in the 1980's Nicholas Clapp stumbled on the legend. Poring over medieval manuscripts, he discovered a slip of the pen in A.D. 1460 had mislead generations of explorers. In satellite images he found evidence of ancient caravan routes that were invisible on the ground. Finally he organized two expeditions to Arabia . . . After many false starts, dead ends and weeks of digging, they uncovered the remains for a remarkable walled city with eight towers, thirty-foot walls, and artifacts dating back 4,000 years - they had found Ubar.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
• Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth
  by Macgillivray, Joseph Alexander
  Publisher: Hill and Wang $30 ISBN: 0809030357 Date: 2000
  PW
  This is the first biography of a flamboyant and very influential man -- written by a scholar with unparalleled expertise in the archaeology of Crete.