Title: Dead dry
Description: Assigned to assist the Salt Lake City police in the investigation of the murder of Afton McWain, a controversial colleague whose body turns up in a gravel quarry, forensic geologist Em Hansen confronts the results of the victim's turbulent personal life.
Subjects: Em Hansen (Fictitious character), Women geologists, Water-supply, Government investigators, Crimes against, Fiction, Geologists, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Political aspects