Death Spoke (Book 2 of Harry Przewalski Trilogy)
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Death Spoke (Book 2 of Harry Przewalski Trilogy)
By: Leonard Krishtalka
Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people's lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect.
In his second case, Death Spoke, the murder of an expert on prehistoric cave art immerses Przewalski in a famous painted cavern in France, a World War II atrocity, an archaeological fraud, and a diabolical act of revenge.
As dean, Joyce Fulbright's ruthless academic politics brought power and deadly enemies.
As an archaeologist, she and her academic adversaries are engaged in a bitter fight over the sudden appearance of magnificent cave art across southern France and Spain 32,000 years ago.
Who ochred the luminous paintings of bison, deer, mammoths, and horses? And why?
Her studies threatened to embarrass French cultural heritage and ruin professional careers--the art in one of the most famous caves was likely forged in the 1950s to attract tourists.
Equally explosive is a bold theory that the cave artists were not hunters or shamans, but outcasts who retreated into the deepest recesses of the caves, driven by their precocious talent and psychological
Przewalski excavates the deadly archaeological layers of the case finding lives torn by deceit, vendetta and redemption.
Paperback; 298 pages
ISBN: 978-1941237342
About the Author
Leonard Krishtalka is the author of award-winning essays and the acclaimed book, Dinosaur Plots. As a paleontologist, he has worked throughout the fossil-rich badlands of the American west, Canada, Patagonia, China, the Afar region of Ethiopia, and the Turkana region of Kenya.
Praise for Death Spoke...
... astonishingly clever tale--intelligently conceived and executed.
Kirkus Review
By: Leonard Krishtalka
Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people's lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect.
In his second case, Death Spoke, the murder of an expert on prehistoric cave art immerses Przewalski in a famous painted cavern in France, a World War II atrocity, an archaeological fraud, and a diabolical act of revenge.
As dean, Joyce Fulbright's ruthless academic politics brought power and deadly enemies.
As an archaeologist, she and her academic adversaries are engaged in a bitter fight over the sudden appearance of magnificent cave art across southern France and Spain 32,000 years ago.
Who ochred the luminous paintings of bison, deer, mammoths, and horses? And why?
Her studies threatened to embarrass French cultural heritage and ruin professional careers--the art in one of the most famous caves was likely forged in the 1950s to attract tourists.
Equally explosive is a bold theory that the cave artists were not hunters or shamans, but outcasts who retreated into the deepest recesses of the caves, driven by their precocious talent and psychological
Przewalski excavates the deadly archaeological layers of the case finding lives torn by deceit, vendetta and redemption.
Paperback; 298 pages
ISBN: 978-1941237342
About the Author
Leonard Krishtalka is the author of award-winning essays and the acclaimed book, Dinosaur Plots. As a paleontologist, he has worked throughout the fossil-rich badlands of the American west, Canada, Patagonia, China, the Afar region of Ethiopia, and the Turkana region of Kenya.
Praise for Death Spoke...
... astonishingly clever tale--intelligently conceived and executed.
Kirkus Review