Bargain @ $1.99 in Canada & US from Amazon's exclusive Thomas & Mercer imprint:
Switcheroo by Edgar Award-winner Aaron Elkins (
SYKM,
Wikipedia), 18th in said Edgar Award-winning Gideon Oliver series starring a forensic anthropologist. This is an excellent and enjoyable science-based series which I highly recommend. The 1st one was a
freebie via an old RAEBW giveaway which you may have already. (I got mine via an old Fictionwise sale and ended up buying and
bingeing upon the rest of the lot that were sold on Fictionwise during the next and then getting the then-available remainder in paper from the library to
mainline once I'd run out of the ebooks).
Unless something has changed in the past 2 books, this is a series with self-contained non-backreferential cases and not much character change between novels, which can be safely read as standalones, IMHO. The first 10 books are now available from Open Road Media, who acquired e-Reads, and is couponable/tends to give semi-regular deep discounts and the next 7 are out from Penguin's Berkley imprint, which at least sells them for paperback-equivalent prices and not something terribly exorbitant.
The Skeleton Detective is back.
A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night.
Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended—but their lives remained linked through work, trouble with the law, and finally, it would seem, through murder.
Nobody expects that Gideon’s modern-day investigation will turn up fresh bodies. But old bones tell many tales, and the Skeleton Detective has to be at his sharpest to piece together the truth before the body count mounts still higher.
Declared “a series that never disappoints” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Gideon Oliver mystery series is highly recommended for fans of Agatha Christie and Kathy Reichs.