Katherine V. Forrest: Sleeping Bones (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
LAPD Detective Kate Delafield has a new, iron-willed female lieutenant; a tough new partner who may turn out to be a much-needed ally, and a dangerous new case. A reclusive old man has been brutally slain at the La Brea Tar Pits. The unusual investigation could uncover the truth of humanity's ancient past, and, at the same time, expose the corruption and violence of the present. And everyone involved - from the alluring scientist with a dark secret to a treacherous CIA officer with his own agenda - is suspect.

With more at stake than just a pile of bones, Kate has to gather together the pieces of a timeless puzzle, and make sure they all fit - before a remorseless killer decides to make her a part of history...

Katherine V. Forrest: Sleeping Bones. A Kate Delafield Mystery. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425174840 (June, 2000), 260 p., $14.00.

Katherine V. Forrest: Sleeping Bones (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
Since the publication of her bestseller, Curious Wine, Katherine V. Forrest has emerged as a pre-eminent voice in gay and lesbian fiction, and an award-winning author of mystery novels featuring lesbian LAPD homicide detective and ex-Marine Kate Delafield. Now, in the powerful new mystery Sleeping Bones, Kate investigates a murder connected to a priceless artifact of human history...

The world continues to change around LAPD detective Kate Delafield. She has a new, iron-willed female lieutenant, a tough new partner who may turn out to be a much-needed ally, and a new case that is going to test her mettle to the utmost. When a reclusive old man is brutally and silently murdered at the La Brea Tar Pits, Kate is inexorably drawn into a mystery that can uncover the truth of humanity's ancient past and that threatens to expose the corruption and violence of the present. And everyone involved -- from an alluring scientist with a dark secret to a treacherous CIA officer with his own agenda -- is a suspect. With more at stake than just a pile of bones, Kate has to gather together the pieces of a timeless puzzle, and make sure they all fit -- before a remorseless killer decides to make her a part of history...

Katherine V. Forrest: Sleeping Bones. A Kate Delafield Mystery. Berkley Prime Crime, ISBN: 0425170292 (September, 1999), 260 p., $21.95.