Airtight Case (Lindsay Chamberlain)
Airtight Case (Lindsay Chamberlain) book cover

Airtight Case (Lindsay Chamberlain)

Mass Market Paperback – October 15, 2002

Price
$18.28
Publisher
Cumberland House Publishing
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1581822953
Dimensions
5 x 1.1 x 8 inches
Weight
9.9 ounces

Description

About the Author BEVERLY CONNOR weaves her professional experiences as an archaeologist and her knowledge of Southern culture into interlinked stories of the past and present in her Lindsay Chamberlain mystery series. Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she now lives in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, with her husband, her dogs, her horse, and her cats. Airtight Case is the fifth book in this unique mystery series.

Features & Highlights

  • In a seemingly random event, forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain is attacked and left for dead. Buried in a shallow grave in the woods, she manages to escape, although she suffers from loss of memory as a result of the ordeal.
  • When Lindsay's memory returns, it is incomplete. She copes with the trauma by ignoring it, and she allows the authorities to handle the investigation. As the probe quickly comes to a dead end, however, the assault looms like a dark cloud over her peace of mind.
  • Lindsay joins excavations at an 1830s farm site on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Unlike previous digs where Lindsay has worked, this site is an unhappy one. Crew members are on edge and argue among themselves, and the site director takes an instant dislike to Lindsay. Furthermore, the principal investigator is under suspicion of murdering a local resident and stealing valuable papers from her. If that weren't enough, Lindsay and the crew are lodged in a haunted house, and even though she is the only crew member who doesn't believe in ghosts, she is the only one who sees them.
  • When very old sealed lead coffins dating from the 1700s are discovered, Lindsay becomes so excited with the discovery that she momentarily forgets her own troubles. However, her relief is short-lived, for inside one of the coffins are the disturbing remains of a woman who has something frighteningly in common with Lindsay. Then when one of the crew disappears, no one but Lindsay is worried or seems to care. If she doesn't figure out what's happening around her, she might lose her sanity, or worse, her life.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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I stayed up until 3 in the morning finishing this book --

On a weeknight. Knowing I had to get up and go to work in the morning. So be warned -- start this book when you know you'll have to read it nonstop (like a beach?)
It took about one sentence for me to get into the book. The action begins immediately -- archeologist Lindsay Chamberlain is in a hospital with amnesia, and some guy who claims to be her fiance wants to take her home, but she knows something's wrong and tries to get away from him... well, you get the idea.
Before long, the action shifts to an archeological dig in Tennessee just outside Smoky Mountains National Park. The crew on the dig are having major problems with a horribly belligerant site manager and lots of in-fighting. Somehow or another, these two stories have to come together, and they do, around archeologist Lindsay Chamberlain.
I highly recommend this book -- I think it's the best book I've read so far this year.
6 people found this helpful
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very bad!

Sorry to say I could not bring myself to read more than one quarter of this book. The characters are cardboard cutouts and the dialog amateurishly written. The archeologists in the story behave like children and seem to have no more than a grade school education. I stuck with the book for as long as I did because the house at the archeological dig was supposed to be haunted, and I love a good ghost story, but the writing was so poor and the characters were so silly and boring. After the main character mentioned for the second time that her job was so dangerous and that she had been shot, stabbed, kidnapped, almost drowned, lost in a cave, and buried alive, I just had to quit! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I just couldn't read any more!
3 people found this helpful
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Very good, lots of twists

Lindsay just never seems to catch a break. This was a very good book and kept me reading way to late for a work night. You really feel like you can see the characters and feel their emotions. Just when you think you have it figured out, there is more information that has you guessing again.
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love it

I could not put the book down, I was captivated by it, well written and fun to read, go for it