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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780312984458 ISBN: 0312984456 Label: St. Martin's Minotaur Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: January 20, 2003 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: With the Winter Olympics approaching, Salt Lake City is trembling with excitement-literally. A real life earthquake has torn fissures into the city's preparations, and now forensic geologist Em Hansen has a rare opportunity to get some field work in before her home is overrun by tourists and athletes. But murder can spoil anybody's plans, and when the body of the state geologist turns up in the wake of the 'quake, the FBI enlists Em's unique expertise to sort through the rubble. When the case takes her into the byzantine bureaucracy of the city's building codes, Em runs headfirst into an assortment of intimidating suspects and corrupt government officials-and an uncomfortable clue that points to her own boyfriend, Ray. On shaky ground as her personal and professional lives collide, Em must use fascinating geological science to capture a murderer before her whole life come crumbling to the ground. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - warningSarah Andrews continues to bring together what I love - geology, and mysteries from a woman's view. I was hooked all the way till the end, but as a warning to others who like to solve mysteries, or who are enjoying the whole series, don't skip the 2 books before this one! I was lost on Em's perspective and thoughts on certain key issues, which supposedly are explained in such full detail in the 2 previous books that she barely mentions them here. Sure, it's an interesting read (I'd ... Read More Rating:  - Fantastic Mystery Solved by a Forensic GeologistThis is the first Sarah Andrews mystery I've read, starring main character Em Hansen, Forensic Geologist. I loved it so much that I'm planning to go out and buy every book of Sarah Andrew's that I can get my hands on ! The book takes place in heavily faulted Salt Lake City. Geologist (and informal investigator-in-training) 35-year-old Em Hansen is shaken awake about 4 AM by an approximate 5.3-level earthquake. She gets caught up in the two murder investigations of a geologist and a ... Read More Rating: - THe kind of book that makes you want to read the sequelI'm going to have to buy the next book in the series because I'm dying to find out what happens next to detective geologist Em Hansen, particularly her love life, and I'm not normally a fan of romances. But detective Em is very likeable and the reader cares about her, and there are a couple of very interesting men in her life as the book ends. In this mystery, Em's relationship with her boyfriend, Mormon policeman Ray, is in difficulty from the get-go. Em is not Mormon and his family ... Read More Rating: - One Olympic disaster that didn't...The timing of this latest Em Hansen mystery makes the novel already dated but no less enjoyable for that. When a moderate 5.2 earthquake hits Salt Lake City weeks before this year's Winter Olympic Games, the local geologists, including Hansen, get excited. But when the Utah State geologist is murdered, the FBI recruits Hansen to look into the geological state of things. Coping with chronic underemployment and a rocky romance with her Mormon cop boyfriend, Hansen jumps at the chance. Reviewing ... Read More Rating: - Did You Feel It???What's more exciting than an earthquake that shakes you out of bed first thing in the morning? Sarah Andrews' newest Em Hanson mystery - Fault Line - which kept me up until 2am this morning! Fault Line finds Em Hanson, out-of-work petroleum geologist and fledgling forensic geologist, living in Salt Lake City, sorting out her life. A 5.2 M earthquake on a branch of the Wasatch Fault wakes everybody up and the death of the head of the Utah Geological Survey really gets things rolling. Earthquakes aren't ... Read More 
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