Description: In the fourth Frankie MarFarlane mystery the geologist, her students, and an old friend discover a murder among the volcanic hoodoos of the desert Southwest.
Brief description: Susan Cummins Miller, a former field geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and college instructor, is a research affiliate and SIROW Scholar with the University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women. In addition to the Frankie MacFarlane mysteries, she is the editor of A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922 (TTUP, 2007). She lives in Tucson.
Review Quotes: "A rollicking pentimento of fieldwork gone afoul!" -- Geotimes "Geotimes"