Earth Colors

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Macmillan, Dec 28, 2004 - Fiction - 368 pages
Paint By Murder
Unemployed professional geologist and sometime FBI consultant, Em Hansen desperately needs work. So when her best friend Faye tells her that she knows someone who could use Em's expertise as a geologist to authenticate a painting, she jumps at the prospect. The painting is by the famous painter of the American West, Frederic Remington, and Em's client has had it in his family for years. But he believes it's a fake and wants Em to use her forensic skills to analyze the pigments to prove it. Since pigments are just ground-up minerals, it's a perfect task for a geologist like Em.

Although Em doesn't quite trust Faye's friend, she sets aside her doubts and takes the case. Following the painting's trail takes her from Wyoming to Utah to Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, and then it takes an unexpected sinister twist, putting Em on the trail of a murderer too. Suddenly she's the only one who can find out what's going on in time to save several lives, including her own.

"Intriguing."--Publishers Weekly

"Compulsively readable." -Houston Chronicle on Fault Line
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
12
Section 3
21
Section 4
41
Section 5
48
Section 6
61
Section 7
79
Section 8
88
Section 14
178
Section 15
200
Section 16
212
Section 17
220
Section 18
246
Section 19
255
Section 20
275
Section 21
283

Section 9
93
Section 10
109
Section 11
123
Section 12
142
Section 13
158
Section 22
298
Section 23
304
Section 24
308
Section 25
327
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About the author (2004)

Sarah Andrews, a professional geologist and licensed pilot, is the recipient of four awards for her writing, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists' Journalism Award and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers' James Shea Award. When not writing or teaching at Sonoma State University, she likes to draw with pastels plein air in Northern California's wine country, where she lives with her husband and son. Together they enjoy blue-water sailing, skiing, and exploring the West in their 1965 Beechcraft Baron.

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