Aaron Elkins is the creator of the modern forensic mystery, having pioneered the genre with Fellowship of Fear, which introduced the Skeleton Detective, Gideon Oliver. Among his awards are a best-novel Edgar and a Nero Wolfe Award. He and his wife Charlotte hold a jointly awarded Agatha. Aaron's books have been translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. In addition, his work has been published in over a dozen languages.
In addition to his forensic novels, Aaron has a second series featuring art curator-sleuth Chris Norgren, and several stand-alone thrillers. While he gets going on the next Gideon Oliver adventure, had continues to collaborate with Charlotte on their current series.
The Elkinses live on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Aaron keeps his hand in the forensic game by serving as the forensic anthropologist for the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force.