
Written in Stone by Paige Shelto
I love Delaney and the crew at The Cracked Spine and this series always leaves me wanting to visit Edinburgh. And I love Delaney and her quirky friends/co-workers. It's also nice that she's happily married to someone who is not a cop. This time around a visiting professor who is attempting to sell a Pictish artifact is killed.
We get some good background on the Picts and, randomly, dinosaurs, which was fun. This series always does a nice job weaving history with the current mystery, The whodunnit was a little too obvious and, while the 3D printing aspect added a contemporary touch, i just can't believe it would dupe anyone. There's no way 3D printed artifacts/ fossils would hold up to even a cursory look, so why bother with the printing part at all? Why not just bluff that you have them?
I did enjoy the story, even if it wasn't quite as good as some of the others. It's...