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Publisher: Avon/ Harper Collins
Release Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-06-055462-2
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Format Reviewed: Paperback
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Genre: Mystery
Reviewed: 2004
Reviewer: Nancy Arant Williams
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A Fugitive Truth
An Emma Fielding Mystery
By Dana Cameron


      Archaeologist Emma Fielding arrives at her new and temporary post as a Fellow at the Shrewsbury Foundation near Monroe, Massachusetts to find circumstances a little less than ideal.

    The grounds are stunning, and the library and facilities more than accommodating, while her fellow researchers are just plain squirrelly and unpredictable.

     Emma has looked forward, with great anticipation, to sinking her intellectual teeth into Madame Margaret Chandler's 300-year-old journal. Its strange numerical code hides secrets no scholar has been able to break, and now it's Emma's turn to try.

     Unfortunately, that's not the only mystery afoot.

     When one-of-a-kind rare books start disappearing and other researchers turn up dead, under suspicious circumstances, Emma realizes it would be safer to quit the program than risk her life for the sake of the project. But she's this close to cracking the code, every archaeologist’s lifelong dream, and can't bring herself to flee in fear, no matter what.

    As an archaeologist by profession, author Dana Cameron injects into “A Fugitive Truth” a healthy dose of realism as well as a compelling thriller thread that runs parallel to the storyline itself. A true whodunit, you'll have to wait till the end to find out who's getting away with murder.

     Although it started a little slowly, Ms. Cameron was able to pull it off nicely in the end. A good story to curl up with beside a crackling fire.