World-renowned museum paleontologist, Peter Marchand, goes missing while leading a dinosaur dig in the sweltering, desert badlands of Wyoming. He has made enemies from his serial womanizing, ruthless dealings, religious blasphemy, and unorthodox theories. Hired to find him, Pittsburgh private detective Harry Przewalski uncovers a tangle of sexual deceit, betrayal, and scientific fraud. He chases Marchand across 80 million years of intrigue and death, from the bone field of petrified skeletons to the bone rooms of the museum. Ultimately, he must excavate the nightmares in his own extinct past to keep from being killed.

Leonard Krishtalka is the author of award-winning essays and the acclaimed book, Dinosaur Plots. As a paleontologist, he has worked throughout the fossil-rich badlands of the American West, Canada, Patagonia, China, the Afar region of Ethiopia, and the Turkana region of Kenya. In his Iron City mysteries, beginning with The Bone Field, Pittsburgh private detective Harry Przewalski unearths sex, deceit and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Two forthcoming novels in the series are Death Spoke, and The Camel Driver.