The Dark Place.

AARON J. ELKINS

Publication: Walker, 1983, New York

First edition. Author's second book. Fine in dust jacket. Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. Forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determines that the murder weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years. GideonAs investigation takes him into the dark heart of an unexplored wilderness.