Publisher's Synopsis
From the Edgar(R) Award-winning author of Uneasy Relations, starring Professor Gideon Oliver, a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth (Chicago Tribute). Sailing the Amazon with a group of botanists, Skeleton Detective Gideon Oliver is on his dream vacation. But it turns nightmarish when fierce head-hunters narrowly miss killing the group leader, then a deranged passenger kills a botanist and flees. Long-past enmities and resentments--and new ones as well--might explain things. And when a fresh skeleton turns up in the river, Gideon is sure that, in this jungle full of predators, humans may be the deadliest of all.
