From Publishers Weekly
Forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain faces some very stiff challenges in her third appearance (Questionable Remains, 1997). She consults on the case of Shirley Foster, an art teacher at the University of Georgia in Athens, who has been missing for four years, and very quickly guides the authorities to a grave site on the Foster family's property. After Lindsay helps identify the remains as Foster's, she believes her part in the case is over, but events prove otherwise. In the meantime, her brother Sinjin appears for a visit, bringing some crates that had been stored on their archeologist grandfather's property. Filled with Native American artifacts of mysterious provenance, the crates also yield a skeleton wearing a shirt and tie. Could Lindsay's grandfather have been involved in both artifact smuggling and murder? When the artifacts disappear, the puzzle deepens. In Connor's latest multifaceted tale, the plot is serpentine, the solution ingenious, the academic politics vicious, and Lindsay is appealing. Although the dialogue occasionally is stilted and transitions are sometimes abrupt, this entertaining mystery is as chock-full of engrossing anthropological and archeological detail as a newly discovered burial mound. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
Forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain, who debuted in A Rumor of Bones (Cumberland, 1996) and returned in Questionable Remains (LJ 9/1/97), helps a private investigator locate the grave of a missing teacher, then assists in finding clues to the identity of her murderer. For fans of medical mystery.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist
Lindsay Chamberlain, a forensic archaeologist from the University of Georgia, is hired to examine the remains of a wealthy woman who disappeared, but her findings raise more questions than they answer. Meanwhile, Lindsay's brother Sinjin (short for St. John) turns up with crates from their archaeologist grandfather's farm, bringing family turmoil and still more unresolved questions. This third Lindsay Chamberlain novel is the best yet in an outstanding but too-little-known series. Connor grabs the reader with her first sentence and never lets up until book's end. Chamberlain is a fascinating, offbeat, and always believable sleuth; settings and supporting characters are equally realistic and intriguing; and the story satisfies both as a mystery and as an entre e into the fascinating world of bones and what they tell us about human behavior. Add Connor's dark humor, and you have a multidimensional mystery that deserves comparison with Patricia Cornwell. John Rowen


Booklist
“An ingenious plot, intriguing characters, and a mystery as well hidden as rubies on a beach.”


Book Description
Some skeletons just won't stay hidden. No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. Still, she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate that had been stored in a kudzu-covered shed on her grandfather's farm for more than sixty years. When other crates are discovered, each containing a stash of valuable artifacts, Lindsay begins to wonder. Could her beloved grandfather, a prominent archaeologist, have been a thief, a looter-even a murderer? As Lindsay struggles with these troubling questions, she helps a local private investigator locate the wooded grave of Shirley Foster, a missing faculty member. Lindsay is sucked into the investigation, which leads to more questions that answers. Why did Shirley Foster lie to the world about her life? Who wanted her dead? Secrets and lies loom large in Lindsay's life, both professional and personal, as she struggles to find solutions to the mysteries. When artifacts disappear from the university and she and her students are threatened, the stakes are raised. With her job, her reputation, and her life on the line, Lindsay must find a thief and a killer before the police assume she is ultimately responsible.


From the Author
BEVERLY CONNOR weaves her professional experience as an archaeologist and her knowledge of Southern culture into interlinked stories of the past in the Lindsay Chamberlain mystery series. Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Connor now lives in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, with her husband, her dogs, her horse, and her cats.


About the Author
Beverly Connor weaves her professional experience as an archaeologist and her knowledge of Southern culture into interlinked stories of the past and present in the Lindsay Chamberlain Mystery Series. Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she now lives in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, with her husband, her dogs, her horse, and her cats. Dressed To Die is the third title in the Lindsay Chamberlain series of archaeological murder mysteries.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Some skeletons just won't stay hidden.

No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. Still, she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate that had been stored in a kudzu-covered shed on her grandfather's farm for more than sixty years. When other crates are discovered, each containing a stash of valuable artifacts, Lindsay begins to wonder. Could her beloved grandfather, a prominent archaeologist, have been a thief, a looter-even a murderer?

As Lindsay struggles with these troubling questions, she helps a local private investigator locate the wooded grave of Shirley Foster, a missing faculty member. Lindsay is sucked into the investigation, which leads to more questions that answers. Why did Shirley Foster lie to the world about her life? Who wanted her dead?

Secrets and lies loom large in Lindsay's life, both professional and personal, as she struggles to find solutions to the mysteries. When artifacts disappear from the university and she and her students are threatened, the stakes are raised. With her job, her reputation, and her life on the line, Lindsay must find a thief and a killer before the police assume she is ultimately responsible.

"Chamberlain is fascinating, offbeat and always believable sleuth; settings and supporting characters are equally realistic and intriguing, and the story satisfies both as a mystery and as an entrée into the fascinating world of bones and what they tell us about human behavior. Add Connor's dark humor, and you have a multi-dimensional mystery that deserves comparison with the best of Patricia Cornwell." ￯﾿ﾽ Booklist

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain faces some very stiff challenges in her third appearance (Questionable Remains, 1997). She consults on the case of Shirley Foster, an art teacher at the University of Georgia in Athens, who has been missing for four years, and very quickly guides the authorities to a grave site on the Foster family's property. After Lindsay helps identify the remains as Foster's, she believes her part in the case is over, but events prove otherwise. In the meantime, her brother Sinjin appears for a visit, bringing some crates that had been stored on their archeologist grandfather's property. Filled with Native American artifacts of mysterious provenance, the crates also yield a skeleton wearing a shirt and tie. Could Lindsay's grandfather have been involved in both artifact smuggling and murder? When the artifacts disappear, the puzzle deepens. In Connor's latest multifaceted tale, the plot is serpentine, the solution ingenious, the academic politics vicious, and Lindsay is appealing. Although the dialogue occasionally is stilted and transitions are sometimes abrupt, this entertaining mystery is as chock-full of engrossing anthropological and archeological detail as a newly discovered burial mound. (Sept.)

Library Journal