Title: Skeletons
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
Publisher: Mira
Copyright: 2002
ISBN: 1551667495
Pages: 378
Keywords: thriller
Reading period: 8 December, 2007

Lee Donne agrees to housesit for her absent-minded grandfather. Soon, someone is trying to scare her out of the house in Eugene, Oregon. Buried deep in the house, she discovers why: old photos of young men lynching a black man. One of those men is now running for President as a third-party candidate.

Lee goes on the run and takes her story to a newspaper. She decides to hide in plain sight, à la The Purloined Letter, and heads to New Orleans, posing as a newspaper photographer.

Fairly entertaining and intelligent thriller.