Susan Cummins Miller

A Frankie MacFarlane Mystery

1 - Death Assemblage (Sep-2003)
2 - Detachment Fault (Apr-2004)
3 - Quarry (Apr-2006)
4 - Hoodoo (Apr-2008)
5 - Fracture (Feb-2011)

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  Death Assemblage
  

  • Sep-2003
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  A Frankie MacFarlane Mystery - 1
  

  The first of the Frankie MacFarlane SeriesThe mountains west of Pair-a-Dice, Nevada, hold mysteries geological, historical, and personal. Geologist Frankie MacFarlane has mapped the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the range for the past t...

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  Detachment Fault
  

  • Apr-2004
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Frankie MacFarlane Mystery - 2
  

  As a geologist, Frankie MacFarlane is a dedicated student of the earth -- its changes, its movements, and its power. Now, she must use her deductive skills to uncover a mystery below the calm surface of her native Tucson, Arizona... After laboring l...

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  Quarry
  

  • Apr-2006
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Frankie MacFarlane Mystery - 3
  

  With crimes of passion striking the quiet University of Del Rio campus, geologist Frankie MacFarlane is enmeshed in the case of a fragile psyche pushed to the edge... Just as Frankie arranges her doctoral dissertation's long-awaited defense, a polic...

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  A Sweet, Separate Intimacy
  

  • Dec-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  In this book are bits and pieces of dreams, lives, experiences, and vistas, like squares cut from old cloth and assembled into a crazy quilt of writing styles and forms. The patchwork design mirrors both the complexity of the chroniclers and the star...

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  Hoodoo
  

  • Apr-2008
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Frankie MacFarlane Mystery - 4
  

  Southeastern Arizona is a tinderbox. Down Under Copper’s plans to explore for minerals pit landowners, worried about their water supply and land values, against those hoping to profit from the mining venture. Someone snaps.In the traditional homela...

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  Fracture
  

  • Feb-2011
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Frankie MacFarlane Mystery - 5
  

  Geologist Frankie MacFarlane and P.I. Philo Dain, just back from Afghanistan, are packing for an R&R trip to a cooler clime when Philo's Aunt Heather is murdered in her empty Tucson mansion. Her husband, wealthy developer Derek Dain, is the prime sus...

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  Chasm
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Mystery
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  When colleague Dora Simpson asks Frankie MacFarlane to fill in as geology professor on a whitewater trip hrough the heart of the Grand Canyon, Frankie jumps at the chance. Eight days. Nearly two hundred miles on the river. One mile deep into the eart...

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  My Bonney Lies Under
  

  • Jan-2025
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Aboard the steamship Oceanic in 1885, 15-year-old Keridec Rees is carrying her father's ashes home when her friend and companion, Anne Bonney, disappears. Is Anne hiding among the passengers in steerage? Has she fallen overboard? Or was she murdered?...

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  My Bonnie Lies Under
  

  • Jan-2025
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Aboard the steamship Oceanic in 1885, 15-year-old Keridec Rees is carrying her father's ashes home when her friend and companion, Anne Bonney, disappears. Is Anne hiding among the passengers in steerage? Has she fallen overboard? Or was...

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Award-Winning Books by Susan Cummins Miller

Quarry
2006 IndieFab Award -- Mystery