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Ex-cop-turned PI Louis Kinkaid finds an infant's skull on the beach at Captiva Island among the debris washed up by the 1987 Hurricane Alina. The skull turns out to be more than 50 years old and it intrigues Kinkaid. Whose baby was this? Why did it die? Four days later, Ft Myers Police Chief Horton, asks Kinkaid to come along to the mangrove swamp to see the body of a young woman that has just washed up. The woman's feet are torn, as if she ran barefoot through the swamp. She has been shot, is wearing a coral wedding band, and is pregnant. Louis meets the new chief of detectives, Mel Landeta, who has come to Ft Myers surrounded by rumors as to his abilities as a detective. When the news breaks about the body on the island, Kinkaid is hired by a woman who has found some newspaper clippings in her father's home. The clippings refer to several missing women over a period of 35 years. Kinkaid reluctantly agrees to take the case, and starts trying to find out about Frank Woods, the mild-mannered librarian, who is his client's father. Kinkaid and Landeta have to join forces to solve the mystery of the present murder, and the possible murders going back almost two generations. P J Parrish is a pseudonym for two sisters. They write seamlessly. Their characters are all flawed, but realistically and believably so. The setting, in the swamplands of the Florida coast, is stifling. My only problem is, why I didn't begin reading this series when it started. ISLAND OF BONES is the fifth in the series. I shall certainly be on the lookout for number six.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, January 2004
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