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"Satisfying mystery that keeps you hooked first page to last."
Reviewed by Anne Barringer
Posted August 16, 2004

"Hang 'em High" is one of the thoughts running through Diane Fallon's head as she surveys her latest crime scene - four nooses and three unnaturally elongated corpses swinging in the breeze. Diane, the director of the River Trail Museum is not your average museum director, just as the River Read more...

"Complex, multi-layered mystery"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 28, 2004

After suffering some trauma in South America, Diane Fallon accepts the job of director of the River Trial museum in Georgia. She was also forced to house a forensic lab in the museum and be in charge of it otherwise the powers that be would tax her museum out Read more...

"Who hung three people in the woods and why?"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted August 28, 2004

Diane Fallon is a Museum Director and has a crime lab attached to the museum. She is also a forensic anthropologist. Her crime lab team is called to investigate three bodies found hanging in the woods. Two land surveryors found them. Not only does Diane's team examine the Read more...

Summary

In Beverly Connor's absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. Now Connor takes her ingenious heroine—forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon—on a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications...

In the shadow of Diane Fallon's new forensic lab in Georgia, a land survey crew has discovered three bodies hanging in an isolated patch of woods. The sensational case has aroused the interest of the media, unnerved the locals—and inspired a gruesome game between the killer and Diane. It begins with taunting e-mails and chilling phone calls. Where it leads is a personal investigation as each bizarre clue brings Diane closer to danger.