American odontologist Alexa Glock is in Rotorua, a tourist destination on New Zealand's North Island akin to Yellowstone National Park. Much around Rotorua is sacred to the Maori. Alexa has come for a funeral but while visiting Waiariki Thermal Land she arrives at a crime scene - a man whose head is submerged in the molten mud. With six months left on her work visa and no wish to return to North Carolina, she offers her forensic services to the local...

This book is a collection of mostly light hearted stories about tactical Naval Aviation off aircraft carriers in the 1960's and 1970's. It is not a history, per se, nor is it like one of the many fine, factual, first person accounts of by other Naval Aviators. The author's impulse was to capture a snapshot of that culture and experience through both oral tradition-stories told by aviators that were too good to be lost; and his own experience. Thus...

With cutting-edge forensic technology, a stunning setting, and a deepening relationship between Alexa and D.I. Bruce Horn, The Bone Riddle will delight science geeks, armchair travelers, and procedural buffs who like a little romance with their body count. Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand: On a cliff overlooking the ocean and one of the largest gannet bird colonies in the world, American CEO Harlan Quinn has built his "Plan B"-a lavish estate, complete...