Winner of a Well Deserved Anthony Award

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	• Ashes and Bones (Emma Fielding Mysteries, No. 6) Dana Cameron Avon, 2006 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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Some cheese with that whine?

I agree with the other reviews that this is the weakest of the series. Emma's consistent whining about her life and continual questioning of her motivations, career, marriage, relationships (which are better than most of us have) reaches peak annoyance level in this novel.

Winner of a Well Deserved Anthony Award

I have read, and enjoyed, all of the Emma Fielding books. One of my favorite aspects of the series is that, along with a great mystery, Cameron gives the reader the full breadth of the rewards and challenges faced by a working archaeologist. Not only does the reader get to see what it's really like in the field, they get to see all of the hurdles (academic office politics, etc.) that an archaeologist has to leap to get to point of being able to put trowel to soil. I don't see the fact that there's no field work in the story as a miss.

Emma is a smart, competent, confident, career oriented heroine. Emma knows what she wants and she goes after it. Emma is emotionally mature enough to form and keep important relationships. So, what happens when all of that is shaken to the core? You get this taut, impeccably paced, rollercoaster ride of a novel. Cameron has turned the suspense up to eleven in this somewhat darker story. It is a bit different than the previous Emma books, but in a very good way. I hope Cameron continues to write stories in this vein.

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Ashes and Bones by Dana Cameron

I like the character Emma Fielding and her exploits. I love archaeology anyway and adding a little mystery and a good team of workers with her exploits makes for a good read and this one is just as exciting and interesting as her other five. I like how she brings the archaeology finds and explains them at the times of the finds so you can follow her through out the book, you never get lost of the actual theme of the book along with all the unusal happenings that find her. Very good reading.

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Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seemingly innocent gestures -- the anonymous delivery of gifts and flowers to Emma's family and friends -- soon progresses to secret, sadistic acts designed to destroy her reputation, her character, and her career.

Someone has instituted a brilliantly insidious campaign of personal terror against Emma Fielding, and she is certain she knows who it is: a cunning and dangerous enemy whom everyone but she believes is dead. But with no proof, no clues, and no allies, Emma will have to fight alone in the dark to rescue a life being rapidly reduced to ashes . . . if she can survive long enough to do so.

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