Just Bones: A Mystery - Softcover

Denhart, Jeffrey

3.25

20 ratings by Goodreads

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ISBN 10: 1885173458 ISBN 13: 9781885173454

Publisher: Write Way Pub, 1997

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Bishop, Iowa, seems to be a perfect picture of contentment with a special small town closeness until the discovery of seven skeletons during the demolition of a hotel. Bill Mullins, the medical examiner, finds a bullet imbedded in one of the chest bones, and determines that the seven were murdered. When further tests reveal the skeletons are over 60 years old, everyone loses interest except Mullins.

Bill keeps up the investigation and slowly begins to realize that Bishop's solidarity is based on deadly secrecy, and that his life is in danger because of it!

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From Library Journal:

Reclusive narrator Dr. Bill Mullins, county medical examiner in Gibson, Iowa (but formerly of LA), simply putters along until workers demolishing an old lakeside hotel discover several skeletons in three sealed rooms. The mayor and sheriff decide to drop the case when tests reveal the crime scene to be 60 years old, but Millins cannot resist. A very promising first novel, complete with straightforward prose, enigmatic plot, and study protagonist.
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From Publishers Weekly:

PW called this small-town Iowa mystery, starring a former big-city medical examiner, an "absorbing debut."
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