Skeleton Hill / Peter Lovesey

Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is back, this time piecing together the murders of two people, decades apart.  A human bone is unearthed by reenactors of a Civil War on a large public green outside of Bath, England.  They rebury the bone, but one goes back later to investigate the find and ultimately pays with his life for his actions.  Are the two deaths linked somehow? A varied, and very British, cast of characters leads DS Diamond down a couple of different paths before the clues click in to place.  Very satisfying mystery, and for once, DS Diamond gets his reward. 326 p.