Elisha's Bones by Don Hoesel reviewed

Still catching up on some reviews, so bear with me. Though this should be the last one for today.

The CFBA featured this book in April. If you want to see the info on the author and the book, go here.

Elisha's Bones reminded me of an Indiana Jones type story. Jack Hawthorne, a full-time professor of archaeology when the book opens, used to enjoy working on digs . . . until his brother was killed—murdered—while working an archeological site in Egypt. Jack is comfortable in his new role and isn't exactly thrilled when he's recruited to find Elisha's bones for a dying man who has the means to finance such a search. With the help of a former girlfriend (which adds all kinds of complications to the search) and her brother, Jack travels the world in search of the bones. In the process he runs across other people who also are involved in this newest version of finding a needle in a haystack. Determining who are his enemies and who are his friends becomes a matter of life and death.

The author has done a good job of characterization and writes a plausible adventure story. While the plot dragged at times, in my opinion, and the hero and heroine sometimes tediously worked through their past issues, overall the read was quick, fast-paced, and interesting. If you enjoy reading about biblical archeology, you will enjoy this book, based on the one-time mention in scripture of a dead man's resurrection when he came into contact with Elisha's bones.