The apparent disappearance of a young paleontology grad student raises few eyebrows in his university world - just another kid deciding that digging for dinosaur bones isn't for him. But Scott Grady is a brilliant and dedicated student working on his doctoral dissertation, and walking away from everything is just not his style.

Although former news hound Ben Tripp considers carpentry his current career (if you can call it that), he can occasionally be persuaded to put his natural instincts to work with some smalltime private-eyeing. Doing the persuading this time is Professor Kathy Sullivan, one of the few people who could call the missing Scott Grady a friend. Tripp's search for Scott Grady leads him to the site of Scott's research, where new dinosaur discoveries are a serious matter, especially in the cutthroat world of academia.

John Paxson was raised on a farm in the Bitterroot Valley of Western Montana. He has been in broadcast journalism for the past twenty-five years, and is currently the deputy bureau chief at CBS News, London. He is married to a journalist, and they have two teenage daughters.

"I've written to John and told him that the book is first rate. It is everything a novel should be: a good story, well told, tightly and wonderfully written. Besides that, it is short, savvy and superb, with twists, turns, and more than enough depth to keep any reader eagerly lapping up the pages." -Dan Rather

Avalon Mysteries by this author:
A GOLDEN TRAIL OF MURDER
BONES