Dead Secret (Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation) [Kindle Edition]

Beverly Connor (Author)

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Review

An outstanding series...deserves comparison with the best of Patricia Cornwell. -- Booklist, starred review

Calls to mind the mysteries of Aaron Elkins and Patricia Cornwell. -- Chicago Sun-Times

Product Description

When forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon discovers a trio of decades-old skeletons, she also unearths the key to a mystery that reaches back seventy years in a legacy of love, greed, and murder-and an unearthed family secret that still holds the power to kill.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 536 KB
• Publisher: Onyx (December 6, 2005)
• Sold by: Penguin Publishing
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002DQDOE8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent adventure-mystery, December 13, 2005

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M. Hughes (Winnebago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Secret (Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation, No. 3) (Paperback)

Beverly Connor has become one of my favorite authors. She keeps the suspense level high while creating complicated plots and sub plots that always leave me guessing.

Dead Secret may be her best Diane Fallon (series) novel to date. While cave mapping with friends, an accident reveals a skeleton hidden within the cave for decades.

Diane investigates the cause of death and attempts to learn the identity of Cave Doe (the name given to the skeleton). As she works on the first body, Diane is asked to analyze the bones of yet another cave fatality. These bones, as legend goes, belong to a witch murdered centuries ago in an English cave. Diane combines the resources of her crime unit plus those of her natural history museum to discover the identity of both skeletons.

Beverly Connor manages to include just enough forensic detail to create interest, but she doesn't bog the plot down with an overload of scientific data. She also throws in a bit of archeology, anthropology, and earth science and weaves them into her tale of adventure and mystery. And what a shocking end to this story.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Pleasant Surprise, March 16, 2007

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C. Butler (Clear Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Secret (Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation, No. 3) (Paperback)

I love to read. I love mysteries and crime dramas. I've been a fan of Patricia Cornwell for a while, but have been disappointed with her last few novels, so I've been expanding my library (when I say library, I mean it...I own more books myself than my parents, 2 sisters, 1 brother, and 5 nieces combined). I commute by way of the DC area Metro trains and spend a lot of time each week with a book, so they have to be good to keep me interested.

I picked up Beverly Connor's "Dead Secret" because the title caught my eye. The book description on the back isn't the most impressive I've ever read and the cover really didn't sell me the book. The title intrigued me though.

Beverly's writing style is similar to the old Patricia Cornwell style. The book grabbed me from the first moment and held onto my attention to the end. I won't give away any of the plot, but I will say this: I'm usually very good at figuring out the who-dun-it pretty early on, but this one kept me guessing right to the last page.

An excellent read for the mystery fan!

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step aside Patricia Cornwell, December 19, 2005

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Lady McTeach "Regent of Reading" (Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dead Secret (Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation, No. 3) (Paperback)

I've now read all of Beverly Connor's books and have enjoyed each one of them. I have enjoyed Patricia Cornwell's books, but not her most recent ones. Beverly Connor has written books that have the best of what I enjoyed in the character of Kay Scarpetta. I dearly hope Connor writes more and FASTER!