Bøger af Susan Cummins Miller

The fifty-three poems in Deciphering the Desert by Susan Cummins Miller, award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, arise from the mysteries that surround us in the intersections of landscape, science, history, prehistory, and Time. These poems excavate what lies behind, beneath, and beyond surface observations and experiences-the extraordinary in the commonplace-and they capture the healing power and renewal to be found in the desert West.

The poems in Making Silent Stones Sing by Susan Cummins Miller, award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, capture a geoscientist's contemplation of, discoveries in, and wisdom gained from the changing landscape of her life and history. Individual poems explore universal themes: wonder, joy, loss, love, Deep Time, and the healing power and renewal to be found in the solitude and silence of the desert West.

The first of the Frankie MacFarlane Series, Death Assemblage is a multilayered mystery nestled in the mountains of Nevada -- just west of Pair-a-Dice.The mountains hold mysteries -- geological, historical, and personal. Geologist Frankie MacFarlane has mapped the rocks of the range for the past three summers. In the final week of her dissertation fieldwork, she searches for an elusive final key to her research: a limestone marker bed -- a death assemblage -- hidden by dangerous, shifting talus. But as Frankie strives to piece together her geologic jigsaw puzzle, she is embroiled in a web of ancient and recent murders, a manhunt, kidnappings, and blackmail.

Jorge was the brother of the MacFarlane family's longtime fishing guide; Carla, girlfriend of Frankies brother. But when the Tucson murder victims turn out to be Frankies colleague, Frankie joins the hunt for the killers, bringing her geologists eye and analytical skills to aid sheriffs detective Toni Navarro and private investigator Philo Dane.

Southeastern Arizona is a tinderbox. Down Under Copper's plans to explore for minerals pit landowners, worried about their water supply and land values, against those hoping to profit from the mining venture. Someone snaps.

Frankie suspects that a serial killer may be on the loose, a man who is so good at assuming new identities that he almost resembles the shape-changers of Native American myth. When Frankie is asked to join a expedition into the Mojave desert, she jumps at the chance to get away from the mayhem, but trouble follows her, with near-fatal results.

Geologist Frankie MacFarlane has mapped the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the range for the past three summers. But as Frankie strives to piece together her geologic jigsaw puzzle, the denizens of Pair-a-Dice, her base of operations, embroil her in a web of ancient and recent murders, a manhunt, kidnappings, and blackmail.