Chinese-culture, Chinese-customs, burial-practices, dual-narrations, dual-time-frames, New-Zealand, law-enforcement, relationship-issues, cultural-exploration, cultural-heritage, forensics, missing-persons, wrongful-conviction, good-research, procedural, PTSD, unputdownable, crime-fiction, suspense, suspicion, twisty, friendship, investigations, odontology, series***** NOT an unbiased review! I love this series about a forensic odontologist currently working for an agency in New Zealand. Alexa came to help identify a skeleton from the era when Chinese men were brought in to work for gold, stayed to help identify another old skeleton buried nearby, got caught up in a missing person case and the hunt for a recalcitrant parolee. And then things really got complicated. Background issues are a relationship problem and an offer to go to Scotland to gain her PhD. I requested and received a free temporary EARC from Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley. Thank you!