This list has archaeologists, forensic archaeologists, geologists and detectives that use their knowledge of ancient (or not so ancient) times to solve a crime or find clues on the way to a satisfactory explanation. In some cases, the main character is professionally an archaeologist but his/her field of expertise is just for background as a crime is committed and solved by them or with his/her help. The dictionary definition of archaeology is the scientific study of material remains (as fossil relics, artifacts, and monuments) of past human life and activities, and or the remains of the culture of a people. This list endeavors to give you an array of choices while “Digging Death.”

Please choose one or more of these titles and come prepared to speak about one of them at the meeting.

Series titles in this list are by publication date. When not labeled, the main character is an archaeologist.

Thank you to Reference Librarian Beth Radcliffe for her work on this list.

Digging Death: Archaeological Mysteries

• Tensleep
• A fall in Denver
• Mother nature
• Only flesh and bones
• Bone hunter
• An eye for gold
• Fault line
• Killer dust
• Earth colors
• Dead dry
• In cold pursuit

• Exit actors, dying
• Lament for a lady laird
• The Cape Cod caper
• Zadok's Treasure
• Death of a voodoo doll. Not in NOBLE
• The menehune murders
• Death on the dragon's tongue. Not in NOBLE
• Toby's folly
• The catacomb conspiracy
• The Cape Cod conundrum
• Dirge for a Dorset Druid
• The Midas murders

• A fly has a hundred eyes

• Carved in bone
• Flesh and bone
• The devil's bones

• The chemistry of death
• Written in bone

• Site unseen
• Grave Consequences
• Past malice
• A fugitive truth
• More bitter than death
• Ashes and bones

• A rumor of bones
• Questionable remains
• Dressed to die
• Skeleton crew
• Airtight case

• One grave too many
• Dead Guilty. Not in NOBLE.
• Dead secret
• Dead past
• Dead hunt

• Track of the scorpion
• Flight of the serpent. Not in NOBLE.
• Wake of the hornet
• Return of the Spanish lady. Not in NOBLE.
• Thread of the spider

• Good blood
• Where there's a will
• Unnatural selection
• Little tiny teeth
• Fellowship of fear

• The merchant's house
• The armada boy
• An unhallowed grave
• The funeral boat
• The bone garden
• Painted Doom. Not in NOBLE.
• Skeleton Room. Not in NOBLE.
• Plague Maiden. Not in NOBLE.
• Cursed Inheritance. Not in NOBLE.
• The marriage hearse
• The shining skull

• Artifacts
• Relics. Not in NOBLE.
• Effigies
• Findings. Due 7/2008.

• Shadow in the Corn. Not in NOBLE
• Byron's Shadow. Not in NOBLE
• Shadesmoor. Not in NOBLE
• Lady in the lake
Foss, Jason - Maddy Crowe
• Blood and sandals

• The visitant
• The summoning God
• Bone walker

• Xibalba murders
• The Maltese goddess
• The Moche warrior
• The celtic riddle
• The African quest
• The Etruscan chimera
• The Thai amulet
• The Magyar Venus
• The Moai murders
• The Orkney scroll
• The Chinese alchemist

• Haunted ground
• Lake of sorrows

• The seventh sacrament

• Too high

• One drop of blood

• Diamond Head
• Sand dollars
• Emerald flash
• Silversword

• No certain rest

• The angel's promise

• Grave witness
• Knit one, drop one

• A gathering of ghosts
• Most cunning workmen
• A trout in the milk
• Men of subtle craftl
• The devil is dead
• A wisp of smoke
• A secret dying
• Bloodeagle. Not in NOBLE.
• The cross bearer
• Short-lived Ghost. Not in NOBLE.
• Angel of Death. Not in NOBLE.
• Suddenly as a Shadow. Not in NOBLE.
• Shape-shifter. Not in NOBLE.
• Ghost Dancers. Not in NOBLE.
• Assumption of Death. Not in NOBLE.
• Dead secret
• Ways of Death. Not in NOBLE.
• Headhunter. Not in NOBLE.
• Grave error
• Dragon Head

• Funeral sites
• No man's island
• Grave goods
• A kind of healthy grave
• Death beyond the Nile
• Faith, hope and homicide

• Swan

• Sick of shadows
• See Forensic Detectives for a list of this series.

• Bone deep

• Dragon's eye

• Crocodile on the sandbank
• See A Love to Die For for a list of this series.
• Children of the storm
• The serpent on the crown
• Tomb of the golden bird

• Deja dead
• Death du jour
• Deadly decisions
• Grave secrets
• Fatal voyage
• Bare bones
• Monday mourning
• Cross bones
• Break no bones
• Bones to ashes
• Devil bones

• Die for me

• The reincarnationist

• Digging up death

• Sasso

• The lost army of Cambyses
• The last secret of the temple

• The eye of Horus

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