The Bone Track

Alexa Glock Forensics Mysteries, Book 3

By: Sara E. Johnson

Narrated by: Sarah Naughton

New Zealand's remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie, with whom she hasn't spent much time since they were kids. But their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start: She must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons—most likely Māori tribespeople—whose graves have been unearthed by highway construction. Before she opens the first casket, a Māori elder gives her a dire warning: The viewing of bones can unleash misfortune to the living. Or worse.

Though Alexa dismisses his words as superstitious, they soon come back to haunt her as the idyllic hike takes a sinister turn. First, Charlie is aloof and resentful of the time Alexa has spent at work. Then a rock avalanche nearly carries her away as it reveals the skeletal remains of someone who has clearly been stabbed to death. When a fellow hiker goes missing and is later found dead, it’s all Alexa can do to focus on the science as she investigates two murders, while trying not to become the third victim.

©2022 Sara E. Johnson (P)2022 Dreamscape Media

Excellent mystery! Lots of twists and turns! Loved the New Zealand focus!

Alexa is an interesting heroine with an inquisitive, defiant, sort of personality that keeps you, wondering what she’ll be up to next!

4

What's not enough as our heroine goes tramping in national preserves in New Zealand ? I bought this for two reasons -
ancient burials and hearing the proper
pronunciation of Maori. It is relaxing and fun, like a cozy, full of interesting tidbits of a place
I've never visited with a well designed mystery
featuring a Forensic Investigator on scene.
I would buy another one featuring this F.I. in
New Zealand