Skull Duggery

This is an outtake from a blog post discussing Gideon Oliver 15-17 over at The Irresponsible Reader.
This one gets a bonus 1/2 star for the mentions by both Gideon and Julie that if he's around, a skeleton (at least a skull) will appear to keep him busy (and would probably deserve the bonus without those mentions). I also appreciated the “just another day in the office” aspect of the attempt on Gideon's life. At this point, he should really take out a bigger life insurance policy any time he leaves the country.

A week's vacation in a little, out of the way, Mexican village turns deadly for Gideon and Julie. I really enjoyed the setting and the backstory on this one, even more than the forensics.

This one was almost painfully easy to figure out the killer – although the actual motive was trickier than I thought, but after The Reveal, it totally made sense. Despite that, I thought this was one of the better ones in this series that almost never has a lesser entry.