Lara McClintoch Archaeological Mysteries Books In Publication Order
- The Xibalba Murders (1997)
- The Maltese Goddess (1998)
- The Moche Warrior (1999)
- The Celtic Riddle (2000)
- The African Quest (2001)
- The Etruscan Chimera (2002)
- The Thai Amulet (2003)
- The Magyar Venus (2004)
- The Moai Murders (2005)
- The Orkney Scroll (2006)
- The Chinese Alchemist (2007)
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The Xibalba Murders
Traveling to Mexico to help her friend, Dr. Castillo, with a mysterious project, Lara McClintoch is shocked when she arrives to discover the doctor murdered and begins an investigation in the surrounding jungles.
The Maltese Goddess
Lara McClintoch is obsessed with finding rare and beautiful artifacts. Her travels take her to the ends of the earth, where history jealously guards its treasures and where the mysteries of the past meet the dangers of the present…
Lara flies to Malta to personally furnish the home of Toronto’s Martin Galea, whose reputation as an architect is rivaled only by his reputation as a womanizer. But when he turns up dead, Lara soon finds out that her client and his new home share a troubled past a past that stretches back to the ancient world, and reaches out with the insidious hand of modern intrigue…
The Moche Warrior
When Toronto antiques dealer Lara McClintoch finds herself in possession of authentic artifacts of the Moche an ancient people whose civilization predates the Incas she soon realizes that she is an unwitting link in a chain of blackmarket collectors. Now she must journey to Peru and do battle with an army of grave robbers as ruthless and deadly as The Moche Warriors themselves…
‘Richly woven descriptions…
fascinating and vividly presented…
an artfully crafted plot…
a passport to adventure’ Booklist
The Celtic Riddle
An ancient Celtic poem holds the key to a mysterious treasure in the fourth installment in Lyn Hamilton’s highly acclaimed Archaeological Mystery series starring antique dealer and sleuth Lara McClintoch.
The African Quest
Nominated for the prestigious Arthur Ellis Award, Lyn Hamilton’s Archeological Mysteries have captivated travelers, collectors, and mystery readers alike. Now, in The African Quest, Toronto shopkeeper Lara McClintoch sets off on a high stakes hunt for sunken treasure. But when ancient artifacts are crossed with modern greed, the search turns dark…
and deadly.
The Etruscan Chimera
Arthur Ellis Award nominee Lyn Hamilton’s Archeological Mysteries have captivated travelers, collectors, and mystery readers alike. Now, in The Etruscan Chimera, antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is hired by a reclusive billionaire to purchase an obscure Etruscan sculpture. But the land of old Tuscany hides danger behind its charm, as Lara finds out when she discovers a prominent collector buried in his own Etruscan tomb.
The Thai Amulet
Toronto shopkeeper Lara McClintoch solved her first archaeological mystery in The Xibalba Murders, nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Since then, Lyn Hamilton’s acclaimed and popular series has taken readers around the world to various exotic locales where rare antiquities and base human nature add up to murder. Now, in The Thai Amulet, Lara must sift through the layers of Bangkok society to find a fellow antique dealer alive or dead…
A smart, appealing, funny, brave, and vulnerable protagonist.’ London Free Press, Ontario
The Magyar Venus
After the unveiling of The Magyar Venus a head and torso of a woman carved from mammoth ivory during the Upper Paleolithic period one of Lara’s friends commits suicide. Determinedly tracing the Venus’s provenance to Budapest, Lara discovers a truth that arises from the secrets of the past.
The Orkney Scroll
When one of her clients falls victim to a scam and is accused of murder,Lara’s investigation leads her to the Orkney Islands off the northeast coast of Scotland. There, surrounded by surreal beauty and ancient ruins, she is pulled into a centuries old Viking saga and a troubling quest that could end in danger and may just rewrite history.
The Chinese Alchemist
Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is targeted by ruthless criminals while tying to recover an eighth century Tang Dynasty silver box with an alchemical formula for the elixir of immortality etched on the inside of the lid. The rare item holds the key not only to the mysterious death of a museum curator, but to Lara’s own survival.
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