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Salt Lake Shelves

Category: Books-Mystery

Behind Closed Doors.

Available in January 2007, Behind Closed Doors is a new thriller by Natalie R. Collins that provides a look at secret doings of a fundamentalist Mormon family through the eyes of a young girl Melissa.

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Behind Closed Doors.

Available in January 2007, Behind Closed Doors is the latest thriller by local writer Natalie R. Collins. This work provides a look into the secrets a local LDS family in a thrilling murder mystery.

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Earth Colors; Sarah Andrews, pages 289.

Sarah Andrews is back in town. We find her taking trips to the top of the Salt Lake Library, sipping coffee at Salt Lake Roasters and enjoying a Polygamy Porter with a dark handsome mysterious pilot. This new installment of the Em Hansen mysteries involves the study of art...specifically the minerals used to create color in great art. The mystery brings us from the U of U where Ms. Hansen is working on her masters in Forensic Geology, through the wild west town of Cody Wyoming and to the farmland of Pennsylvania which, like Utah, is in a struggle to save its remaining farmland from succumbing to suburbanification.

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Fault Line; Sarah Andrews, pages 307.

Sarah Andrew's Fault Line is now available in paperback. Ms. Andrews continues her Em Hansen series with this delightful mystery set in the pre-Olympic fervor of Salt Lake City. The story revolves around a murder at the USGS, and the troubled relations between Em and her LDS police officer fianc?: Ray Raymond.

Em Hansen, of course, is a geologist. In each episode, she finds herself enmeshed in the intrigues of her profession and the people around her. Fault Line centers on the Wasatch Fault. The murder involves the USGS, and conflicts with developers anxious to cash in on the Olympic building fervor. High powered money politics, the impending crush of millions to the Salt Lake Olympics and the threat of a catastrophic geological event create a riveting tale filled with conflict and drama.

The drama brings us through the massive reconstruction of the Salt Lake City County building, and provides insight into the construction of malls, hillside houses and other buildings in the valley. The relation between Em and Officer Raymond provides a delightful outsiders view of the LDS/non LDS conflict.

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The Wailing Wind; Tony Hillerman.

Tony Hillerman's latest book The Wailing Wind will be released on May 7th. An avid fan of Mr. Hillerman, I am looking forward to reading this 15th book in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mystery series. The advanced reviews announce that Tony Hillerman is back at the top of form. You can order your advanced copy today.

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Wives and Sisters; Natalie R. Collins.

This thriller begins with the mysterious disapperance of Allison's best friend Cindy, then winds through the intricacies of the Modern LDS experience.

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Dead Dry; Sarah Andrews, pages 320.

Great news mystery fans! Em Hansen has gone professional. Have solved ten mysteries as an amateur forensic geologist, Ms. Hansen now hangs up her shingles at the Utah Geological Society as a profensional sleuth.

The work Dead Dry begins with the discovery of a body buried in a gravel pit at the Point of Mountain then quickly leads to the intrigues of water politics of the suburban sprawl enveloping Castle Rock, Colorado.

As with previous Em Hansen novels, Sarah Andrews skillfully combines a murder mystery with the even grander mystery of wester aquifers and the politics that is leading to the destruction of the west's most precious resource: water.

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An Eye For Gold, pages 387.

An Eye For Gold brings Sarah Andrew's young protagonist Em Hansen on a trip across the Great Basin from Salt Lake to the gold mines of Nevada. Written in 2000, Ms. Andrews provides an up to date ideas on the geology of the Great Basin, while working through a mystery that involves crazy old koots scratching for gold, rich widowers and the baubles and an elusive Paiute shaman.

On the domestic scene, we find Em Hanson (a lone wolf from Nevada) slowly drawn into a the large LDS clan of her lover, a sterling, white toothed police office.

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The Eagle Catcher; Margaret Coel, pages 241.

Margaret Coel carries on the tradition of Tony Hillerman. She sets her mysteries on the Arapaho reservation in Central Wyoming. Coel's books are good, simple, short reads. There is an ongoing plot between her main characters Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley. I found it is best to start with her first books to get the full flavor of the plot.

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