Gideon Oliver 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.