One Grave too Many: Good Forensic Mystery

Title: One Grave too Many (Diane Fallon series)
Author: Beverly Connor
Pages: 400
Genre: Mystery

If you’re a fan of forensic mysteries a la Patricia Cornwell, you’ll like enjoy Beverly Connor’s books as well. One Grave too Many introduces us to forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon. Fallon’s day job is as the Director of the River Trail Museum of Natural History in Rosewood, a small college town in Georgia. Fallon’s ready for a change after spending ten years with an international human rights group identifying the remains in mass graves, and would like nothing more than to deal with dinosaur fossils and administrative duties. Alas, she gets dragged into a case when her old flame, Atlanta Detective Frank Duncan, asks for help in identifying a bone. Frank’s daughter Star and her boyfriend are missing, and the bone was found near the boyfriend’s house. Then Star is accused of the murder of a family, and Frank and Diane work together to prove her innocent, while fending off a rival for power at the museum who’s trying to discredit her work as Director.