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More Bitter Than Death (Emma Fielding Mysteries, No. 5): An Emma Fielding Mystery Kindle Edition

by Dana Cameron (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 180 ratings

Book 5 of 6: Emma Fielding Mysteries

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It's a deadly winter for archaeologist Emma Fielding as she tracks a killer in an old New Hampshire hotel, in this fifth mystery from real-life archaeologist Dana Cameron.

Archaeologist Emma Fielding should be on top of the world. Her teaching job secure and home life stable, she arrives at an archaeological conference at a famous old New Hampshire hotel, having outrun the winter storm that's paralysing the East Coast. A rising star in the field, she's in the midst of friends she's known all her life, celebrating the work of Professor Garrison, a venerable legend in the field.

When Garrison is found dead on the iced-over lake outside the snow-bound hotel, however, Emma realizes that everyone has something to hide, including herself. While the police determine whether Garrison's death was an accident, suicide, or murder, Emma's intimate knowledge of her colleagues hasn't prepared her for what they're concealing, even from themselves. Emma is also forced to face the fact that the dead man was no friend of hers (or her grandfather Oscar) and that everyone-colleagues, police, and herself included-wonders why her view of him is so very different.

The presence of Emma's old flame Duncan brings up bitter memories she'd rather were left buried deep in the past: Duncan wants something from her and Emma can't tell whether it is an opportunity to rekindle their relationship or a way to ensure her silence permanently. Professional jealousies and infighting would be enough added to Garrison's mysterious death, but a series of thefts and attacks in the isolated hotel make the stranded archaeologists ask whether a vengeful ghost has returned, practiced criminals are targeting the conference, or one of their own number has finally succumbed to an array of deadly temptations.

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“[D]elivers a unique, surprise-filled plot that’s enhanced by mature, intelligent characters.”

About the Author

Dana Cameron is a professional archaeologist, with a Ph.D. and experience in Old and New World archaeology. She has worked extensively on the East Coast on sites dating from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century. Ms. Cameron lives in Massachusetts. Ashes and Bones is her sixth novel featuring archaeologist Emma Fielding.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000VYX91W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins e-books (March 17, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 17, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1597 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #184,180 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #306 in Women's Detective Fiction
- #2,431 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #6,179 in Women Sleuths (Kindle Store)

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Dana Cameron's novels and short stories are inspired by her career as an archaeologist. Her crime fiction has won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, and has been short-listed for the Edgar Award. Several of her Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries have been made into movies for the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel. HELLBENDER is the third urban fantasy novel set in her Fangborn 'verse. Dana lives in Massachusetts, USA; learn more at www.danacameron.com.

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Nancy

Fun and fast

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2022

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I've read all 5 books and found them to have interesting twists, good humor and tantalizing glimpses into a field of which I knew very little. Now, as this book is a cliffhanger, I want the next one out ASAP, or I'm gonna deduct a star for Traumatic Anticipation Syndrome!

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Manicreader

Great story line, unattractive hero.

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2013

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I read all six of the books in the series for the great plotting. However, I really disliked Emma Fielding. I found her to be the kind of person I wouldn't want to spend much time around. This woman feels guilty about everything. Everything that happens to her is her fault. This is a very self-centered character who isn't really appropriate to handle the situations she gets herself into.

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GrumpyGranny

Evolving Beautifully

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2017

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This is, as all Emma Fielding books have been, a very interesting and engaging novel well worth a read. It is the evolving, ever changing, honest to a fault character of Emma that makes me keep coming back. Emma is not a static paradigm of curious archeologists. Emma and all the characters around her are ever changing, ever evolving, as the exigencies of life alter their perceptions or wants and needs. That evolution is a vast richness for the reader to explore and follow from book to book. I am more than happy to follow this path and see where it may lead us.

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Nash Black

All Good Fellows Meet

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2010

An academic meeting is deadly in its own-self. If you've ever attended one you will recognize all the stock characters that are taken from real life.
What Emma Fielding didn't expect in Dana Cameron's MORE BITTER THAN DEATH is that the honoree would end up murder and she would join the list of suspects. For a change of pace Ms. Cameron brings out a new/old love interest for Emma if she can solve the murder before becoming a victim.
Not as intricate as others in the series, but still a fun read.
Nash Black, author of QUALIFYING LAPS.

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Lisa Kay

Thoroughly captivating!

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020

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I bought this book on a whim and loved it! The characters and storyline are intricate and detailed. Going to purchase the next book in the series.

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017