Aaron Elkins

AARON ELKINS is a former anthropologist and anthropology professor who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, "the Skeleton Detective." There are fifteen published titles to date in the series. The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages.

Mr. Elkins won the 1988 Edgar Award for "Old Bones" for best mystery of the year (fourth book in the Gideon Oliver Series). He and his co-writer and wife, Charlotte, also won an Agatha Award and he has also won a Nero Wolfe Award.

Mr. Elkins lives on Washington's Olympic Peninsula with his mystery-writer wife and frequent co-author, Charlotte.

His official website is Aaron Elkins