I have read some of the Alex Delaware books by Jonathan Kellerman before, but it's been a while. In this book he co-wrote with his son Jesse, the protagonist is the Deputy Coroner for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department--basically, the Berkeley area of California. This is apparently the 3rd installment in this series. Clay Edison is already a little sleep deprived with their new baby when he gets called in to investigate the skeleton of a small child found in People's Park by a construction crew. As a result of their search for unsolved missing children cases, Clay is also contacted by a local businessman, Peter Franchette, who wants Clay to find a sister that he thinks went missing before Peter was born...over 50 years ago. The body at People's Park is not the man's sister, it is quickly determined, but Clay agrees to take on the search on his own time. The skeleton in the part is the catalyst for a raft of trouble--protests, sit-ins, law suits, etc--and the sooner Clay can identify the boy, the sooner things will calm down. Filled with colorful history of the area, highlighting the issues of the day such as nuclear weapons research, this book also offers a truly engaging main character. Publishers Weekly offers only a lukewarm review.
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