The Shadow of Venus (Claire Reynier Mysteries)

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From the acclaimed author of Land of Burning Heat -the murder of a young woman takes rare book expert Claire Reynier into Albuquerque's dark streets, where she must shed light on the shadows of the past.

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The Stolen Blue (Claire Reynier Mysteries)

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For the fifty-year-old, recently divorced Claire Reynier, it's time to start over. But her new direction in life--at a New Mexico university--becomes a detour to murder when an old friend and mentor is found dead.

Praise for The Stolen Blue:
"Van Gieson's back--and better than ever. Don't Miss The Stolen Blue."--Tony Hillerman

"Van Gieson was always a terrific writer, but now she's outdone herself with The Stolen Blue. A captivating and absorbing, highly readable, stay-with-it-till-you're-done mystery."--Fred Harris, author of Coyote Revenge

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Hotshots (Neil Hamel Mystery)

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While investigating the death of a firefighter on the job as part of an explosive wrongful death case, Neil Hamel learns about the high-risk, low-reward world of forest firefighters and discovers that, as she nears forty years of age, she needs more out of life. Reprint."

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North of the Border: A Neil Hamel Mystery

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On one side of the border, a murder; on the other, a killer. In between stands Neil Hamel, a woman with a passion for the truth.

"Don't worry, Chiquita" was the Kid's answer to almost everything, and right now Neil Hamel missed the Kid--her part-time lover and car mechanic. Neil had gone to Mexico as a favor to a man she shouldn't be doing favors for, and what it got her was a face-to-face meeting with a corpse, a Mexican lawyer with a diamond pinky ring and a throat slit from ear to ear. Returning home to Albuquerque, Neil couldn't let go of the tangled scheme she had uncovered. Looking for the truth, she finds human predators.

"Neil Hamel is the best thing to happen to criminal investigation since Father Brown. . . . Van Gieson is a classy writer."--Tony Hillerman

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Parrot Blues: A Neil Hamel Mystery

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Hired by millionaire Terrance Lewellen to investigate the kidnapping of his estranged wife and the disappearance of Colloquy, one of their rare macaws, lawyer-turned-detective Neil Hamel finds himself immersed in the treacherous world of parrot smuggling. Tour.

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Vanishing Point

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When talented young writer Jonathan Vail vanishes without a trace on a camping trip, he leaves behind a wilderness journal, and an acclaimed first novel. But questions abound. Has the twenty-three-year-old prodigy been dispatched by thieves? Does his girlfriend, whose version of Vail's disappearance in Utah's Slickrock Canyon satisfies no one, know more about Vail's fate than she is telling? And what of Vail's eagerly anticipated work-in-progress - a new canyonlands journal - apparently lost along with his body?" "Flash forward more than thirty years, when a rock slide reveals a hidden cave near Slickrock Canyon. Vail's body isn't recovered, but the missing journal is. When it is presented for authentication to Claire Reynier, an archivist and rare-books expert at the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research, danger and mayhem suddenly come to anyone who touches the faded spiral notebook or seeks to discover what happened to Jonathan.

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