Agreeing to help radical environmentalist Juan Sololobo, Neil Hamel leaves his Albuquerque law practice and goes to the Soledad border country, where Sololobo is attempting to reintroduce the wolf. Reprint. PW.

Rare book expert Claire Reynier investigates when the body of a young woman is found in the basement of the university library, bearing an illustration from a priceless book, which leads Claire to the dark underworld of Albuquerque's homeless.

Rare book expert Claire Reynier embarks on her latest mystery when the body of a young woman is found in the basement of the university library, bearing an illustration from a priceless book, which leads Claire to the dark underworld of Albuquerque's homeless. Original.

An ancient religion, a family�s hidden past, and a modern-day murder confront archivist Claire Reynier in her search for a priceless document. A young woman named Isabel Santos discovers a faded scrap of paper buried for hundreds of years under her family�s adobe house. It could be the controversial last words of a Jewish mystic condemned to death by the Inquisition in Mexico City in 1596.Before Claire can examine the document, it disappears and tragedy strikes the Santos family, leaving Claire with many unanswered questions. Were these really the mystic�s last words? How did they get to New Mexico, a place Sephardic Jews hid from the Inquisition and continued to practice their religion in secret for centuries? Is someone willing to kill for the document?Santos is Spanish for saints, but Claire soon discovers that this namesake is a mixed legacy. Every time she visits their old home, she puts herself in harm�s way, yet she continues to search for answers to questions rooted in a dark and dangerous time when heretics were killed for their beliefs.

Sleuth Neil Hamel investigates her friend Lonnie's death--labeled a suicide by the police--and uncovers a bevy of suspects, including Lonnie's ex-husband, his jealous new lover, and Tim Malone, an amorous old friend

Product Description: A steady law practice, a stash of tequila, a lover she calls the Kid--only a debt of the heart to her dear, dead aunt Joan could compel Neil Hamel to leave Albuquerque for Montana in search of a bird. No ordinary winged creature, the Arctic falcon is a near-mythic figure, a cool killer who likes the meat around the heart...read more

Product Description: In Confidence Woman, the third Claire Reynier mystery, the use and abuse of identity entangle Claire in a murder for which she becomes the prime suspect. Claire�s struggles to prove her innocence plunge her into a treacherous and ever-shifting quest to figure out who people really are...read more

Carl Roberts, a lawyer planning on running for Representative, asks Neil Hamel, a lawyer and his former lover, if she will investigate threatening letters he has received concerning his adoption of a Mexican-born boy

Product Description: 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...read more

The death of an old friend and mentor turns fifty-year-old divorcee Claire Reynier loose on a murder investigation at a New Mexico university.

Product Description: Claire Reynier's job is to buy rare books for the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico library. Claire likes nothing better than to search for valuable western titles, but when a call from a collector takes her to a remote wilderness ranch, her dream job almost becomes a nightmare...read more

Lawyer and sleuth Neil Hamel and her Latino lover try to track down the killer of an Albuquerque gang member after young Cheyenne Morales takes the rap and goes to prison in place of the real murderer. Reprint. AB.

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.

While probing the death of firefighter Joni Barker during a much-publicized blaze in the New Mexican wilderness, Albuquerque detective Neil Hamel journeys inside the world of 'hotshots'--elite forest firefighters--and the fierce controversies over their work.

Investigating a dual abduction of a millionaire's wife and a rare indigo macaw, attorney and P.I. Neil Hamel travels to the heart of New Mexico's San Augustine and becomes alarmed when a chief suspect dies mysteriously. Reprint. PW.

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.

Accepting the case of an elderly woman accused of murdering her son's accidental killer, sometime sleuth Neil Hamel begins an investigation across the Southwest landscape and into the dangerous truths of the victim and accused. Reprint. PW.

While in Mexico, Neil Hamel discovers the corpse of a Mexican lawyer, and after returning to Albuquerque, she unravels a deadly scheme and finds herself hot on the trail of a killer. Reprint. K.

Sleuth Neil Hamel investigates her friend Lonnie's death--labeled a suicide by the police--and uncovers a bevy of suspects, including Lonnie's ex-husband, his jealous new lover, and Tim Malone, an amorous old friend

Lawyer-sleuth Neil Hamel returns in a case involving a radical naturalist accused of the grisly death of a notorious poacher, a bunch of small-town politicians, and an Arab prince determined to obtain a rare Gryfalcon