Em Hansen mysteries
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1) Tensleep
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Em Hansen works as a mudlogger among a mostly coarse crew of working men. Though she suffers the ill will of the majority, Em is doggedly attached to her work, which involves recording data about mud samples, even as the arrival of a coolly elegant woman geologist increases the sexism quotient. The first death claims Em's mentor Bill, a careful man whose car skids out of control; next to go is young Willie, apparently crushed to death by wild horses....
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[1995]
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Geologist Emily Hansen, a lowly mud-loggerin the oilfields, is hired by an oil company in Denver foran office job and gets her first taste of corporate life, which includes two suicides in the space of a few days. That's if they were suicides. Emily decides to find out. By the author of Tensleep.
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1997]
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Against her better judgment, Em - broke, unemployed, and desperate for something to take her mind off her father's recent death - accepts this less-than-ideal job: A U.S. senator sends her to Santa Rosa, California, to investigate his daughter Janet's death. He thinks something Janet uncovered at her job as a geologist for an environmental consulting firm got her killed, and he wants Em to find out what it was. What at first seems like a straightforward...
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Forensic geologist Emily Hansen uses geological clues to solve crimes. Now, fresh from extricating herself - just barely - from suspicion in the investigation of the murder of a dinosaur paleontologist in Salt Lake City, Em allows a wily FBI agent to talk her into assisting the Bureau on another case." "Em and the agent head into the deserts of Nevada: gambling and gold-mining country, where fortunes - and lives - are won and lost. Their task is...
7) Fault line
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Forensic geologist Em Hansen lands in the middle of a 5.2 earthquake in Salt Lake City, but rather than studying the quake, Em, at the behest of the FBI, must investigate the murder of a fellow geologist, killed only hours after the tremor.
8) Killer dust
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
This author's latest creation sends Em Hansen to Florida, where she investigates a strange dust cloud supposedly arriving from Africa. Before it's all over, NASA, the FBI, and her new boyfriend are involved.
10) Dead dry
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Assigned to assist the Salt Lake City police in the investigation of the murder of Afton McWain, a controversial colleague whose body turns up in a gravel quarry, forensic geologist Em Hansen confronts the results of the victim's turbulent personal life.
11) Rock bottom
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A white water trip through the Grand Canyon goes off-course when Em Hansen's husband is accused of murdering a fellow rafter.