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Picnic in the ruins : a novel / Todd Robert Petersen.
Van Pelt Library PS3616.E84263 P53 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petersen, Todd Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women anthropologists--Fiction.
- Women anthropologists.
- Historic preservation.
- National monuments.
- Utah.
- National monuments--Utah--Fiction.
- Historic preservation--Fiction.
- Criminals--Fiction.
- Criminals.
- Sheriffs--Fiction.
- Sheriffs.
- Utah--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Black humor.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she unexpectedly crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a collector of Native American artifacts, but instead of delivering as promised, the brothers are out to strike it rich. But their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence--and forced their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, to send a fixer to clean up their mess before it upsets her machinations. Sheriff Dalton, following the Ashdowns' trail, soon discovers he's not dealing with a simple burglary--and any hope the sheriff had for peace and quiet is long gone."--Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781640093225
- 1640093222
- OCLC:
- 1181832852
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