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    The Visitant: Book I of the Anasazi Mysteries

    By Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear

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    With their bestselling First North Americans series, the Gears have astounded an avid international audience of millions. Now these master storytellers turn to the American Southwest, to one of the most enigmatic people to ever inhabit this continent—the Anasazi. At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, their empire was vast and sophisticated, unequalled until the arrival of the Europeans—and then they simply disappeared.

    Dr. Maureen Cole, one of the world's foremost physical anthropologists, is called in to examine and evaluate a mass grave discovered in New Mexico. The burial site contains nothing but the shatttered skulls of women and children. As Dr. Cole works to unravel the mystery of these deaths, strange things begin to happen around her. The walls of her laboratory crumble, her generator quits, and she begins to hear whispering voices emanating from the plastic bags of bones....

    The Visitant is the first book in the Anasazi Mysteries series, which marked the beginning of an exciting new direction for the Gears—one sure to appeal to the Gears's large and dedicated following as well as fans of Tony Hillerman's Native American mysteries.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 25, 2011
    ISBN9781466823570
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    The Visitant: Book I of the Anasazi Mysteries
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    Kathleen O'Neal Gear

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear is a New York Times-bestselling author and nationally award-winning archaeologist who has been honored by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the United States Congress. She is the author or co-author of 50 books and over 200 non-fiction articles. Her books have been translated into 29 languages. She lives in northern Wyoming with W. Michael Gear and a wily Shetland Sheep dog named Jake.

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    • 3/5
      Creepy, compelling, but overly complicated, and not believable as a series.
    • 5/5
      Dr. Maureen Cole, an anthropologist, is called in to examine a mass grave discovered in New Mexico, but as she works to unravel the mystery of the shattered skulls of women and children found there, strange things begin to happen around her.
    • 4/5
      A mystery set in ancient anasazi land (mesa verde where i've visited/camped--high school anthropology trip)--anthropologists trying to solve--gets a little grisly (or a lot)
    • 5/5
      Very enjoyable and doesn't make your brain cross trying to keep up with the storyline as it jumps back and forth through time.