Skeleton

A Blockbuster employee on a smoke break discovers a human skull in an overflow pond, setting off speculation that the skull may belong to a graduate student at the local college who mysteriously disappeared the year before. Inspector Jeremy Wolf, a widower, wine lover, would-be author, and long-time detective, takes on the case, assisted by Jack Mathers, a curmudgeonly medical examiner with a fondness for jelly donuts, and Kate McCormick, a beautiful rookie officer who has more than a passing interest in Wolf. The continuing investigation leads Wolf and Kate through taxidermy shops, dermisted beetle farms, tattoo parlors, and the halls of the local university. And then more women begin disappearing. Through all this, Wolf and Kate are hounded by TV reporter Paige Pataki, who hopes to displace the current top story—the strange appearance of an emu in town and the fruitless, Keystone Kops attempts to capture it—by an in-depth series on the evolving case that she hopes will finally la