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Welcome to my website. I write stories set in the outdoors, taking forensic mystery into eco-thriller territory.
I'd like to introduce books one and two of The Forensic Geology Series:
 
BADWATER (book one)
Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws embark on a perilous hunt--tracking a terrorist who has stolen radioactive material that is hotter than the desert in August. He threatens to release it in America's most fragile national park, Death Valley.
But first he must stop the geologists who are closing in.
As the hunt turns dangerous, Cassie and Walter will need grit along with their field skills to survive this case. For they are up against more than pure malice. The unstable atom--in the hands of an unstable man--is governed by Murphy's Law. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
And it does.
REVIEWS of BADWATER
"Fans of Nevada Barr will love this suspenseful literary mystery, where the brutal Death Valley landscape is as much a character as the renegade radworkers, dangerously eccentric desert rats, and dogged geologists trying to prevent a nuclear disaster."
~ Lisa Brackmann, author of the literary suspense novel ROCK PAPER TIGER, an Amazon Top 10 Mystery & Thriller Pick.
“In this superb, taut, action-packed thriller set in the California desert, a highway hijacking turns toxic and Cassie Oldfield, forensic geologist,is called in to help the FBI and the EPA’s Radiological Emergency Response Team track down stolen casks of nuclear waste. Sophisticated soil analysis is not normally a deadly occupation, yet before it’s all over, Cassie comes face to face with a sociopathic killer and with her own mortality. Notice to criminals: Watch out for Cassie! She knows where you’ve been. Fans of Nevada Barr are going to love this book just as much as I did.”
~ Marcia Talley, Agatha and Anthony award-winning author the Hannah Ives mysteries
“BADWATER is superb. It has a great plot with many twists and surprises, featuring real-life characters. The author did a very fine job of characterizing the disconnect between all the measures intended to assure safety and the reality of things sometimes being unsafe. Truly well-written and engaging. A joy to read.”
~ David Lochbaum, head of the Nuclear Safety Project, Union of Concerned Scientists
VOLCANO WATCH (book two)
NO WAY OUT--so says the note in the pocket of the murdered mayor.
The volcano beneath her town is seething, and the fate of Mammoth Lakes now rests in the hands of emergency planner Adrian Krom.
But Krom has his own agenda.
Investigating the case, forensic geologist Cassie Oldfield tracks mineral clues to discover how the mayor died--and what she found. As the volcano moves toward red alert, Cassie races to prevent 'no way out' from becoming a prophecy.
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