Forensics professor Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to the Isles of Scilly, which dot the 
sea like an emerald necklace thirty miles off the Cornwall coast. Julie's been invited here
 by Russian expatriate Vasily Kozlov, scientist, millionaire, and eccentric. At his home, 
Star Castle, he regularly hosts a consortium of guests with differing opinions-which makes
 for some very heated arguments.
While Julie's stuck indoors, Gideon looks forward to puttering around the Neolithic sites
 nearby. But before day one is through, a newer bone turns up-this tibia is only a few
 years old-and all signs point to murder. And just as Gideon and the local law puzzle
 over the bone's origin, another murder happens at Star Castle. Could it just be bad
 luck, two murders within a couple of years? Or do Kozlov's lively debates have a 
way of turning deadly
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