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Author | Dana Cameron |
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Genre | Mystery fiction, suspense, thriller |
Published | 2006 |
Publisher | Avon Books |
Pages | 304 |
Awards | Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original (2007) |
ISBN | 978-0-060-55467-5 |
Website | Ashes and Bones |
Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mystery is a book written by Dana Cameron [1] [2] and published by Avon Books [3] (owned by HarperCollins [4] [5] ) on 25 July 2006, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2007. [6] It is the 6th one in the series.
Emma Fielding confronts a man who should be dead.Tony Markham took the gold artifacts and sailed off into a hurricane. Everyone believes that he is dead, but he is haunting Emma's waking hours. Just when Emma has everything she has worked for all of her adult life a nightmare become real turning her hard won achievements into ashes. No one will believe her until things start getting rough. Plenty of tension building, but it borders on hysteria.
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