Bones — John Paxson

BONES OF CONTENTION


With not much ambition beyond staying busy, former journalist Ben Tripp does a bit of carpentry and small-time private investigating. Mostly stray dogs, straying husbands and general snooping around the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. Pretty tame stuff until now.

Scott Grady, a paleontology student, is missing, and a gorgeous professor hires Tripp to do some digging. Now someone is trying to kill the professor, as Tripp sifts his way through the competitive and cutthroat world of academia. Here he uncovers more than Grady's bones; he digs up the mother lode of motives...and a killer who has staked his claim.