Title: Shear
Description: On a Mediterranean island, geologist Peter Nichols must do a lot of juggling as he investigates the death of a quarry employee. There is the mistress he brought along, there is the daughter of the quarry owner--who seduces him so he will write an exonerating report--there is the dead man's beautiful widow and there are the faxes from Nichols' pregnant wife. By the author of Juggling the Stars.
Subjects: Fiction, Adultery, Geologists in fiction, Adultery in fiction, Geologists, Detective and mystery stories, Psychological fiction, English fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Greece, fiction