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by: Sarah Andrews  List Price: $23.95 Price: $10.72 You Save: $13.23 (55%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Edition: 1st Format: Bargain Price Label: St Martins Minotaur Manufacturer: St Martins Minotaur Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: March 01, 2004 Publisher: St Martins Minotaur Studio: St Martins Minotaur Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Em Hansen, the popular heroine at the center of Sarah Andrews's unique geology mystery series, has landed a new job, although an unusual one: a client affiliated with a museum wants Em to investigate a painting by the famed western painter Frederick Remington. The client believes it's a fake, but Em must explore the painting's provenance to find out. The project takes her through Wyoming, Utah, Washington DC and Pennsylvania, and halfway through the trip Em finds she's also chasing a murderer: someone seems to be slowly poisoning her client's family. Before long, her innocent research project has taken a sinister twist, and it's up to Em to find out what's going on in time to save her own skin. All in all, Earth Colors is another smart, inventive mystery from Sarah Andrews, a fan favorite. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Love Rocks & a Little Mystery? This book is for YouI love detective stories and this one looked good. This was the first of the Sarah Andrews books I have read. I was not disappointed! As an amateur rock hound who enjoys collecting agates and fossils, I loved the geological aspects of this book. I learned a lot about paint pigments, the historical origins of paint, and how artists through the years used the various tinctures to create works of beauty. As a detective novel, the book had lots of twists and turns and keeps you guessing ... Read More Rating:  - Very negativeThis is not a good book. I also am a woman geologist (hydrogeologist)and I am increasingly offended by the whiny, bitter, unsympathetic portrayal of a prototagonist (if that word can be used)who seems unable to pull herself together enough to finish a degree and get and hold a job. Besides these twin destroyers, Em also has unending relationship problems with the men in her life. Finally, the basic premise is silly. Since other reviewers have outlined the plot, I'll just say that the ... Read More Rating:  - Weakened by unsympathetic heroine, unlikely motivationEm Hansen is waiting out her life--waiting for her boyfriend to return from whatever overseas operation the military sent him on, waiting for her friend's baby to grow older, waiting while she struggles with ideas for her Master's thesis in geology. In the meantime, she sponges off of her mother, lives rent-free with her equally impoverished friend Faye Carter, and visits western art museums to check out the fabulous paintings by Remington. When Faye meets up with an old school friend, she offers ... Read More Rating: - wonderful and intelligent mystery with a twistFor geologist Em Hansen her latest assignment is odd in terms of how she got the job while babysitting the infant daughter of her friend Faye Carter "don't call me" Latimer and what her client Tert Krehbeil who's affiliated with a museum hires her to investigate. Tert wants to know whether a painting allegedly done by renowned western artist Frederick Remington is genuine especially since the coloring is a bit different than the painter's usual works. Em begins tracking the history of ... Read More 
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