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Little Tiny Teeth
Little Tiny Teeth
Little Tiny Teeth
Audiobook9 hours

Little Tiny Teeth

Written by Aaron Elkins

Narrated by Joel Richards

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

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From the Edgar® Award-winning author of Uneasy Relations, starring Professor Gideon Oliver, "a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth" (Chicago Tribute).

Sailing the Amazon with a group of botanists, "Skeleton Detective" Gideon Oliver is on his dream vacation. But it turns nightmarish when fierce head-hunters narrowly miss killing the group leader, then a deranged passenger kills a botanist and flees. Long-past enmities and resentments-and new ones as well-might explain things. And when a fresh skeleton turns up in the river, Gideon is sure that, in this jungle full of predators, humans may be the deadliest of all.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 26, 2019
ISBN9781977340481
Little Tiny Teeth
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Aaron Elkins

Aaron Elkins’s mysteries and thrillers have earned him an Edgar, an Agatha, a Nero Wolfe Award, and a Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award. His nonfiction works have appeared in Smithsonian magazine, the New York Times magazine, and Writer’s Digest. A former anthropology professor, Elkins is known for starting the forensic-mystery genre with his 1982 novel, Fellowship of Fear. He currently serves as the anthropological consultant for the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force in Washington State. Elkins lives in Washington with his wife, Charlotte—his occasional collaborator—who is also an Agatha winner.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    "When Gideon Oliver is invited to join an Amazon riverboat expedition with a group of research botanists, he anticipates a relaxing getaway from his academic and forensic duties in an exotic locale. But relaxation is not on the itinerary."There's stifling heat and humidity, giant bird-eating spiders, snakes, fire ants, jungle shamans, hallucinogenic plants, and corrupt military officials -- all of which are expected. What isn't expected is the primitive lance that is flung from the river's shore on the first day of the expedition, narrowly missing the leader of the botanists. Hanging from the lance is a shrunken human head -- the warning of the Chayacuro, a fierce tribe of headhunters. But they aren't the only danger."Hundreds of miles upriver, one of the botanists is killed in the middle of the night by a seemingly deranged passenger who leaps overboard and flees into the darkness. No one can explain why. Theories begin to simmer, though, and stories of long-past, half-forgotten enmities and resentments -- and new ones as well -- boil to the surface."Only when a fresh skeleton turns up in the river, scoured to the bone by voracious piranhas, does Gideon realize that in this jungle full of predators, humans may be the deadliest of all ..."~~front & back flapsWow! There are moments of sheer terror in this one, more so than any of the previous books. Most of the book is relatively innocuous -- even the lance (which wasn't thrown from the shore, btw). And most of the characters also seem innocuous and ordinary, with the exception of Cisco, the "White Shaman," gaunt, gray-bearded, and hollow-cheeked, new faux combat boots, a grimy Chicago Whit Sox baseball cap and a red loose tank top that bared stringy, leathery arms, a dingy gray ponytail. Gideon summed him up: "All he needed was three coats and a supermarket cart stuffed with plastic garbage bags and he would have fit right in mumbling at the tourists from a park bench in Seattle's Pioneer Square."And then there's Captain Alfredo Vargas, founder and president of Amazonia Cruise Lines (which consists solely of the Adelita, one hundred years old, a prison ship in the 1020s and '30s, a rescued half-sunk hulk rotting away on the river shore: a peeling, white-painted, metal-hulled, much-dinged old bucket of a two-decker about the length of a Greyhound bus.) Our captain is an overweight, bespeckled, heavily perspiring man in jeans, T-shirt, and a bright new captain's cap complete with woven gold-oak-leaf filigree -- a nervous, anxious little man.The trip down the Amazon is uneventful except for the quickly simmering animosities towards the head of the ethnobotanical group, Professor Arden Scofield. It seems that every member of the party has a reason to dislike and distrust the professor, and he certainly makes our captain nervous as well.Of course it all comes to a head, and of course our Gideon is caught right in the middle of the explosion. Luckily his friend John Lau is on the cruise as well, and between them they manage to ... well, you'll just have to read the book to find out how encounters with giant bird-eating spiders, head-hunting Chayacuro and the local bad guys of every description comes out.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love Aaron Elkins research, the details, the lush evocative descriptions of sights that make me feel like i'm really there... and the utterly amazing ways that Dr. Oliver evaluates skeletal remains.... and manages to do it humbly. LOVE it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It was on the OAT reading list for the Amazon trip we are taking. It's descriptive and an easy read. Can I really deal with the heat and humidity? Chayacuro Indians sound terrifying and so is travel in SOuth America if drug dealing is involved.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Yes, those little tiny teeth belong to -- piranhas! This time, forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver finds himself floating up the Amazon with a group of botanists. The atmosphere quickly turns animal, however, as assorted menaces animal and human attack the expedition. As usual in this series, the novel is amusing and engaging, as well as a good mystery read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'd been avoiding this one because of some reviews that said that Gideon was doing adventure-hero stuff instead of proper Skeleton Detective work in this book. Well, no. He does go on an Amazon River cruise, and get mixed up (painfully) with drug dealers - but it's not his doing nor does he do any leaping-about heroics. In fact he's quite passive for most of the book as the story unfolds around him - it's not until he finds various bones and allows his deductive facilities free rein that he really starts moving forward. John Lau and Philip Boyijan (sp?) take part and both discover aspects of the mystery. This is one of the ones where the victim really did deserve his death - which doesn't really narrow down the field, although the deaths don't happen until the last third of the book. A lot of variously unpleasant and desperate people, and a serious downer of an ending. Not one of my favorites, definitely, but quite readable.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Yikes! I never thought I'd see the day when I'd find a Gideon Oliver book that failed to intrigue me somewhere within its pages. Unfortunately, that day arrived when I opened the book. It just wasn't interesting enough for me. Not enough of the "bone detecting" that I had gotten used to. It wasn't that bad. It just wasn't that good either.