Tome of Death — D.R. Meredith

Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime-but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit...

The members of the Murder by the Yard book club are spending a pleasant afternoon hiking in Palo Duro Canyon, when one of Megan Clark's dogs slips his leash-and digs up a human skeleton. Megan's background in anthropology places her in a position to help police unearth the remains-and to find another body: a mummy clothed in Comanche garments.

Autopsies reveal that foul play caused both deaths, one less than five years earlier, and the other more than a century ago. Now, Megan must connect the two murders--before she finds herself six feet under...