Aaron J. Elkins AKA Aaron Elkins (born Brooklyn July 24, 1935) is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'. The fourth Oliver book, Old Bones, received the 1988 Edgar Award for Best Novel. As Oliver is a world-renowned authority, he travels around the world and each book is set in a different and often exotic locale.

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section label=”Media Left Large” bg_color=”rgb(247, 247, 247)” bg_overlay=”rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85)” padding=”0px”] Then his old friend Javier Marmolejo, now a colonel with the Federal Preventive Police, asks from Gideon's help in the cold-case investigation of the killing of a child, dead some thirty years, whose skeletal remains had been discovered in an abandoned mine not far from Teotitlan. Once again, Gideon's expert analysis turns things topsy-turvey; nothing is as the police had believed. Then, a cursory look at the skull of a Zapotec princess, 1,000 years old, in a local museum of curiosities produces similarly perplexing results. The 'she' is a 'he', the age of the skull is closer to thirty years than to a thousand, and the cause of death is ... murder. While the locales might be somewhat repetitive, Elkins uses the return of previous characters to keep the reader highly enthralled in the tale. With his successful story writing techniques, Elkins uses the narrative (and dialogue) to both entertain and educate. Dr. Gideon Oliver is a wonderfully refreshing academic-type, complete with his eccentric nature and strong-mindedness. While some of the teachable moments seem forced, “So, Gideon, what is a coma?” the majority of the learning the reader will undertake can be seen as useful and academic, complete with Latin and technical phraseology.

In another series, the protagonist is museum curator Chris Norgren, an expert in Northern Renaissance art.

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With his wife, Charlotte Elkins, he has also co-written a series of golf mysteries about LPGA member Lee Ofsted. They shared an Agatha Award for their short story "Nice Gorilla".