To Catherine Dilts, rock shops are like geodes - both contain hidden treasures inside their plain-as-dirt exteriors. In book one of the Rock Shop Mystery series, amateur sleuth Morgan Iverson's life won't be worth a pile of fossilized dinosaur dung unless she can dig up a killer. In book two, Morgan's discovery of human remains and a rare fossilized gemstone reopens unhealed wounds in a Colorado mountain town as she attempts to solve a Stone Cold Case. Catherine has a day job as an environmental scientist, and enjoys gardening and fishing. Her short fiction appears in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Western Museum of Mining and Industry. Visit Catherine at http://www.catherinedilts.com/