Sara E. Johnson

American odontologist Alexa Glock is in Rotorua, a tourist destination on New Zealand's North Island akin to Yellowstone National Park. Much around Rotorua is sacred to the Maori. Alexa has come for a funeral but while visiting Waiariki Thermal Land she arrives at a crime scene - a man whose head is submerged in the molten mud. With six months left on her work visa and no wish to return to North Carolina, she offers her forensic services to the local...

At first, Alexa Glock's first case as a traveling forensic investigator seems straightforward-her expertise in teeth helps her identify the skeletal remains of a hunter found on the remote Stewart Island in New Zealand. But when she realizes the bullet lodged in his skull was not self-inflicted and a second, shark-ravaged body washes up on Ringaringa Beach, it's clear that something is off. The disturbing sight confirms what locals have hashed out...

A nature trek turns dangerous when the wilderness gives up its bones… 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. Their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start, though, when she must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons-most likely Māori tribespeople-whose graves have been unearthed...

If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive...