Aaron Elkins Books in Order

What should be a dream teaching fellowship in Europe turns ugly when Gideon Oliver is attacked in his Heidelberg hotel room. With two earlier fellows already dead, he has to untangle murder, espionage, and a game he barely understands.

In Washington's rain forest, Gideon examines bones from a murder committed with a prehistoric spear. Bigfoot rumors swirl, but the real answer hiding in the wilderness is deadlier and stranger than folklore.

Gideon's English honeymoon is interrupted by the theft of a 30,000-year-old skull fragment and the murder of an archaeology student. At a dig full of rivalry and suspicion, ancient bones point straight toward fresh killing.

Museum curator Chris Norgren goes to Berlin to help mount an exhibit of long-lost Old Masters and walks straight into trouble. A suspected forgery and his boss's sudden death force him to find both a fake painting and a very real killer.

While lecturing in Brittany, Gideon is called to examine a skeleton hidden beneath an old chateau. The bones open up a chain of present-day murder, family secrets, and wartime betrayal stretching back to the Nazi occupation.

Called to the Yucatan by his old mentor, Gideon finds an archaeological dig overshadowed by a centuries-old Mayan curse. When fear turns into murder, he has to separate legend from a very human killer.

Gideon expects a quiet stay in Alaska while Julie attends a conference, but a memorial trip to an old avalanche site turns deadly. When a famous scientist is found hanged, the ice starts giving up secrets people meant to keep buried.

When a stolen Rubens turns up in a Seattle warehouse, museum curator Chris Norgren follows the trail to Bologna. What starts as an art mystery becomes a dangerous tangle of theft, deception, and murder.

At a gathering of forensic anthropologists in Oregon, even the display bones are not safe. A missing set of remains, a shallow grave, and a murder among colleagues give Gideon an opponent who understands forensic evidence almost as well as he does.

A newly surfaced Rembrandt could make headlines, but Chris Norgren is not sure he believes the story around it. When the provocative dealer behind the painting is murdered, Chris is drawn into a sharp, tricky case of art, ego, and fraud.

A documentary job takes Gideon and Julie to Egypt, where bones found at an archaeological compound stir up old questions. Then a death on a Nile cruise turns a scholarly trip into a hunt for a killer among ruins and relics.

In Tahiti, Gideon is pulled into murder at a luxury coffee plantation famous for its rare Blue Devil beans. Between old bones, local tensions, and very modern greed, paradise does not stay peaceful for long.

A lost Velazquez stolen by the Nazis surfaces in a Boston pawnshop and sends former curator Ben Revere across Europe. The painting comes with a trail of wartime secrets, art theft, and murders that are not finished yet.

A relaxing research trip to France changes course when Gideon is asked to examine suspicious bones in a prehistoric cave. Academic rivalry, an old scientific hoax, and fresh murder make this one of his most quietly cunning cases.

Brooklyn history teacher Pete Simon thinks he knows his wife Lily's past until her supposedly dead father appears and is murdered the next day. Pete's search for Lily pulls him into Europe and into wartime secrets that never really stayed buried.

An Italian holiday at Lake Maggiore turns grim when a child disappears and human bones surface near a wealthy family's island estate. Gideon finds an old clan full of grudges, lies, and reasons to fear the truth.

When a missing plane is finally found off Hawaii's Big Island, Gideon is asked to study the few bones recovered from the wreck. What he uncovers sends him into a bitter family fight shaped by murder, inheritance, and long-practiced deception.

Gideon joins Julie on the Isles of Scilly expecting a quiet break and finds a case tangled in missing bones, eco-politics, and suspicious deaths. The setting is idyllic, but the people around him are fighting over much more than scenery.

A dream trip up the Amazon with botanists turns ugly when violence erupts on board and a fresh skeleton appears in the river. In a landscape full of predators, Gideon learns that the human ones may be the worst.

A sensational find on Gibraltar, the burial of a woman holding a part-Neanderthal child, brings Gideon to a high-profile conference. When deaths begin to pile up, the argument over prehistory becomes a very present danger.

In a quiet village in Oaxaca, Gideon looks at a mummified drifter and the bones of a long-dead little girl. What seems like local curiosity becomes a layered case about identity, missing evidence, and secrets a town would rather forget.

Kidnapping expert Bryan Bennett travels to Iceland for a routine security seminar, carrying trauma from his own childhood abduction. When his wife is taken with a corporate client, his professional skills become painfully personal.

Art consultant Alix London hopes a newly discovered Georgia O'Keeffe in Santa Fe will relaunch her career. Instead she walks into forgery, murder, and a case that forces her to lean on both the FBI and her disgraced father.

Visiting friends at a Tuscan vineyard, Gideon is asked to reexamine what looks like a murder-suicide in the family. His findings expose a mess of old resentments, bad blood, and a killer who is still very much at work.

Alix signs on to a glamorous art-and-lecture cruise through the Greek islands, but the job is really an undercover operation for the FBI. A suspected swindler, a forged painting, and murder send the voyage into dangerous waters.

While working at a Palm Springs museum, Alix spots problems with a valuable Jackson Pollock that nobody wants questioned. An attack in her hotel room makes it clear the forgery is only part of the problem.

A cold case on the Channel Islands draws Gideon into a story that began during the Nazi occupation, when two boys were switched and two men later died on the same night. Old bones lead to new bodies in this late-series mystery.

When a sentimental little mirror is stolen and Uncle Tiny disappears, Alix London knows the theft is not simple burglary. Her search pulls in art dealers, old loyalties, and organized crime.

Curator Val Caruso goes to Milan to help recover two Renoirs looted during World War II. The errand becomes a chase through the modern art world, where old thefts still breed new lies, danger, and murder.