Mother Nature

by Sarah Andrews

  PAWS FOR ALARM by Marian Babson

  SIMON SAID by Sarah R. Shaber

  STRIP JACK by Ian Rankin

  ALL EMERGENCIES, RING SUPER by Ellen Emerson White

  PEPPER PIKE by Les Roberts

  FAMILY SKELETONS by Rett MacPherson

  AGATHA RAISIN AND THE TERRIBLE TOURIST by M.C. Beaton

  A LONG WALK UP THE WATER SLIDE by Don Winslow

  DEAD LETTER is also proud to present these mystery classics by Ngaio Marsh

  COLOUR SCHEME

  DIED IN THE WOOL

  FINAL CURTAIN

  A WREATH FOR RIVERA

  SARAH ANDREWS, herself a professional geologist, is the author of two previous Em Hansen mysteries, A Fall in Denver and Tensleep. She now writes full-time and lives in Northern California.

  MOTHER NATURE

  Copyright © 1997 by Sarah Andrews Brown.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-52649

  ISBN: 0-312-96616-4

  St. Martin’s Press hardcover edition published May 1997

  St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition/July 1998

  St. Martin’s Paperbacks are published by St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

  eISBN 9781466839809

  First eBook edition: February 2013