The Dallas Morning News, November 20, 1999
Mrs. Connor combines smart people, fun people, and dangerous people in a novel hard to put down.


The State, November 7, 1999
I'm eager for the next adventure.


Brazosport Facts, January 9, 2000
If you're a mystery fan you'll want to look for this one.


Athens Magazine, August 2000
". . .an intriguing read."


Book Description
Lindsay Chamberlain is at it again and this may well her toughest assigment yet: uncover sunken Spanish galleon before the cofferdam subsides into the ocean and solve several murders while maintaining her relationship with her beau and fighting off theives. "The Angel of Death," as she is "respectfully" referred to, is up to the challenge. "Skeleton Crew" is the fourth installment of the lauded Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery Series. These hardcover mysteries detail the work of fictional archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain; however, Beverly Connor writes with an exactness and authority that makes her mysteries come alive.


About the Author
Beverly Connor weaves her professional experience as an archaeologist and her knowledge of Southern culture into interlinked stories of the past in her Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery Series. "Skeleton Crew" is Connor's fourth novel to be published by Cumberland House. Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Connor now lives in Georgia.


Excerpted from Skeleton Crew : A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel by Beverly Connor. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
They arrived at the lab amid a swarm of people with "FBI" written on their jackets. "What in the world?" said Bobbie. "Something has happened," said Lindsay. They left the groceries in the vehicle and hurried through the lab. Lindsay caught sight of Trey standing with Harper just inside the front door. Harper had her arms folded, looking at the floor. Trey stared out the door where several FBI men were gathered. Francisco Lewis was with them. He looked grim. "Trey?" "Chamberlain, I'm glad you're back." "What's going on?" "They've found a body in the alligator pool." "A body? Whose?" Lindsay looked through the glass doors to see if she could get a glimpse of something, but all she saw was people standing in the way. "We don't know yet," answered Trey. "This being hot weather, and it being in the alligator pond, and alligators being carrion eaters-well." Bobbie groaned.

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