Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery: 2 (Zelda Richardson Mystery)

A museum researcher must solve a decades-old mystery before she becomes the killers next victim in this riveting dual timeline thriller set in Papua and the Netherlands.Agats Dutch New Guinea (Papua) 1961: While collecting Asmat artifacts for a New York museum American anthropologist Nick Mayfield stumbles upon a smuggling ring organized by high-ranking members of the Dutch colonial government and the Catholic Church. Before he can alert the authorities he vanishes in a mangrove swamp never to be seen again.Amsterdam the Netherlands 2018: While preparing for an exhibition of Asmat artifacts in a Dutch ethnographic museum researcher Zelda Richardson finds Nick Mayfields journal in a long-forgotten crate. Before Zelda can finish reading the journal her housemate is brutally murdered and Give back what is not yours is scrawled on their living room wall.Someone wants ancient history to stay that way--and believes murder is the surest way to keep the past buried. Can she solve a sixty-year-old mystery before decades of deceit greed and retribution cost Zelda her life?Awarded a B.R.A.G. Medallion by indieBRAGs readers in December 2018One of Amys Bookshelf Reviews Top 20 Books of 2018Winner of a Chill with a Book Readers Award June 2018A Women Writers Womens Books magazines Recommended Reads for March 2018New Apples 2018 Summer Book Awards Official Selection Mystery/Thriller categoryBookLife Prize for Fiction 2018 Mystery/Thriller category rating 8.50Art religion and history collide in this edge-of-your-seat museum thriller Book Two of the Zelda Richardson Mystery Series. The novels in this series can be read in any order.