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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312967024 ISBN: 0312967020 Label: St. Martin's Dead Letter Manufacturer: St. Martin's Dead Letter Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: August 15, 1999 Publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter Studio: St. Martin's Dead Letter Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Oil geologist and reluctant crime solver Em Hansen is one of the most interesting characters in recent mystery fiction--a strong woman with believable weaknesses and none of the smugness or coyness that bog down heroines of other, better-selling series. At the start of her fourth book, Sarah Andrews has Em helping her distant mother deliver a calf on the family ranch in Wyoming and wondering about her career choices: "If I hadn't found my own way to the edge, life might have been quite different for me. I might have had what it took to stay on my parents' ranch, or found myself married up to a neighboring spread, instead of heading off into these other lives of mine...." Luckily for us, Em's other lives--chronicled so sharply in A Fall in Denver, Tensleep, and Mother Nature--all available in paperback--make for rewarding reading. The latest book begins with an offer from a patronizing ex-boss to help the unemployed Em find a job--if she will try to discover why his 16-year-old daughter, Cecilia, is having such a hard time getting over the suspicious death of her mother. Em has to dig deeply into Cecilia's repressed memory and the dead woman's heartbreaking journals before some glimpse of the truth is revealed--and her search is suspenseful, poignant, and surprisingly sensual. --Dick Adler Product Description: Still recuperating from her father's death and her mother's recovery from alcohol addiction, geologist and amateur sleuth Emily "Em" Hansen is out of work and unhappily whiling away her time on her family's Wyoming ranch. So when her former boss, oil millionaire J.C. Menken, asks Em for help--and offers to find her a job if she does--she has no choice but to accept. J.C. wife Miriam died a mysterious death--and his teenaged daughter Cecelia was the only witness. But a traumatized Cecelia can't remember anything about the incident, and can't seem to get on with her life. J.C. wants Em to help his daughter get back on track--but will he want to hear the shocking truths that Em uncovers about his deceased wife and the real reason for her untimely death? Average Rating:
 Rating: - Not quite as interesting as her other worksThe thing I found most intriguing about the Sarah Andrews series is the way the author hooks geologic themes within a mystery. For example, Tensleep centers around the drilling of an oil well, Faultline centers around seismology. Flesh and Bones is a wonderful story, and has some of Sarah Andrew's best character development. My only disappointment was the lack of the geologic theme. Flesh and Bones begins with a voyeuristic look into the life of a Mariam Menkin. Mariam was ... Read More Rating: - interesting heroineI like Em Hansen because she is smart. I also enjoyed this book. On the downside, however, some of her behavior in this book does not make human sense -- it seem outright nutty. The author herself makes clear that this is intentional on her part in the last few pages; clearly it is an emerging factor in Em's character. While I'm not sure i believe in it, it does make the books interesting. Rating:  - Circumstantial and circumspectA mystery long on character and short on plot. The relentlessly self-deprecatory Em Hansen, again between geology jobs, returns for an even more languid run in the oil patch. Not a suspense or puzzle whodunit, these have become novels where I wonder whether Em will ever look up from her indecisions and sorrows to see the villain and dangers encroaching on her, and driving her by circumstance. Em hardly has a case for the first half of the book, and is conflicted over accepting it from ... Read More Rating:  - TerrificJosiah "JC" Menkin leaves Denver to visit his former employee, geologist Emily Hansen to plead with his former employee to help him with his teenage daughter, Cecilia. The teen has blocked out the trauma of witnessing the murder of her mother, Miriam. Em, an unemployed geologist and part time amateur sleuth reluctantly agrees to try to help Cecilia because she has always liked the teen. Em convinces herself that in order for her to help Cecilia she needs to learn what really happened ... Read More Rating: - This is Sarah Andrew's best yet in the Em Hansen series.ONLY FLESH AND BONES is the strongest book yet in the excellent series of Em Hansen mysteries written by Sarah Andrews. While it has some exciting action scenes, it is essentially a probe inside the minds of the well-developed characters, centering on Cecelia, the troubled daughter of a Denver oil tycoon who may have repressed memories that would lead to the unraveling of the mysterious death of her mother. Love, revenge, and international deals in the multi-millions combine to create a web of intrigue ... Read More 
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