When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sheriff Walt Longmire’s jurisdiction, murder soon follows. Continue reading Dry Bones by Craig Johnson (2015)

When a T. rex fossil is discovered in Montana, murder follows and ex-cop Mike Wire must protect the people he loves. Continue reading The Dinosaur Hunter by Homer Hickam (2010)

Dinosaurs have been dead for 65 million years, but paleoartist Ansel Phoenix finds something that died much more recently when she takes a trio of college students on a fossil-hunting excursion in eastern Montana. Continue reading Mesozoic Murder by Christine Gentry (2003)

Think of The Dinosaur Feather as The Girl with the Dinosaur Tattoo. It doesn’t quite reach the same literary heights as that other, more famous work of Scandinavian crime fiction, but it an interesting read nonetheless. Continue reading The Dinosaur Feather by Sissel-Jo Gazan (2008)

Forensic geologist Em Hansen uses her keen senses and fascinating scientific background to uncover the buried secrets of the most baffling murder cases. Now Em travels to a Utah paleontology conference, where a renowned dinosaur expert is found brutally murdered…making Em, his houseguest, the chief suspect. Continue reading Bone Hunter by Sarah Andrews (1999)