Hominid

F. Paul Wilson: I love a good science thriller and this one is a helluva read.Starred Review Publishers Weekly: Superior science fiction thriller. . . . Bolands taut atmospherics are top-notch and the evolutionary themes he explores are easily accessible to nonscientists. Mystery Scene review: A riveting scientific suspense novel on the order of the popular Preston and Child thrillers. . . . Boland makes complicated theories about DNA and genetically linked illnesses easily understood. And in contrast to many science-heavy suspense novelists Boland also has the ability to create three-dimensional characters. [The heros] love life is a mess; Silas Merton the islands mayor and only clergyman is also the town drunk; . . . and even brutish Luther turns out to be much much more than your average killer. . . . Hominid never fails to make for exciting reading. (Betty Webb)Kirkus said John C. Bolands DEATH IN JERUSALEM roars along like a BMW in heat. Now Boland--two-time Shamus nominee and International Thriller Writers finalist--imagines a species-wide conflict in a fast-paced science thriller. Archaeologist David Isaac joins a team excavating a crypt on a remote island where a colonial-era family lies buried. By local lore the family were devils. The expeditions leader hopes to revive his career by proving they were murdered by neighbors in a burst of religious hysteria. But these cadavers harbor an older and deadlier secret. And nobody is prepared for what is about to emerge. Evolution is deadly.