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Death Pans Out
Death Pans Out
Death Pans Out
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Death Pans Out

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"Graves finds new gold in dem hills by setting her tale in Oregon mining country and drawing upon personal experience to create a unique protagonist...a small, strong gem of a book."—Entertainment Weekly

While recovering from breast cancer, journalist Jeneva Leopold seeks solitude and healing at her missing uncle's gold mine in the Eastern Oregon desert. As her interest in life returns, so do Jeneva's journalistic habits. She soon overcomes the distrust of miners, ranchers, a quirky artifact hunter and a host of other rich characters. They open her eyes to profound changes in the Old West. But the Oregon desert does not give up its secrets easily. The more Jeneva learns, the more she wonders about her uncle's disappearance and why he and her mother stopped talking so many years ago. Then a death on the creek sends her on a quest for answers. What she uncovers shocks the region and nearly claims her life.

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Release dateSep 30, 2012
ISBN9781615950720
Death Pans Out
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Ashna Graves

Mystery writer Ashna Graves came into being on a warm June afternoon in 1997, and owes her existence to an extended illness, a nice chair in a garden and an empty yellow legal pad. She was born in Santa Fe to restless, bookish parents who moved her and two brothers all over the West. She continued to be a nomad far into adulthood, adding countries and continents to her wanderings. In 1989, Ashna began teaching college journalism, then moved to the university’s humanities research center, where she was made associate director in 2003. She has continued to travel; to Argentina and Taiwan, and to spend time in the emptier regions of the American West with her botanist companion, who is also her best reader and advisor on the how’s and why’s of violent crime in a region of unsurpassed natural beauty. Like her heroine, Ashna lives quietly in an old house within walking distance of her office.

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