Return of the Swallows: A Tamar Saticoy Mystery (Tamar Saticoy Mysteries)

[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]

Deceit and danger loom in the antiquities trade.

Tamar Saticoy, an archaeological consultant for Interpol, once again becomes mired in the devious world of the antiquities trade, this time in Thailand and California.

When Tamar finds a body buried under a burned mud brick wall at California's famous Mission San Juan Capistrano, the head of the Juaneño tribe of Native Americans associated with the mission insists on claiming the body for reburial, threatening reprisals if it is not turned over to him. But Tamar discovers that the body is that of an Asian man, not a Native American--and definitely the victim of a recent murder.

Meanwhile, someone is pillaging archaeological sites on the Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand. The contraband, some of it bracelets still wrapped around bones from looted burial sites, shows up in shoe boxes stored at the Orange County museum, Casa Del Sol. The curator and director of Casa del Sol ask Tamar to help analyze the artifacts.

As Tamar begins to suspect a connection between the murder at the mission and the looting of the Thailand sites, Interpol sends her as an undercover agent to Thailand to investigate the looting. There she is plunged into the deceit and danger of the antiquities trade and faces threats against her own life.