New York:: St Martin's Minotaur, , (2008). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner.). First printing. The author's first book, winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a mystery set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, introducing editor Lucy Newroe and Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya. 271 pp.

Synopsis

Late on a Monday night, editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady---an anonymous elderly tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with gossip from her police scanner. The old woman tells Lucy she heard two Santa Fe cops discussing a dead body. But when Lucy checks out the tip, she discovers Scanner Lady has been killed.She tries to enlist the help of Detective Gil Montoya, but his mind is on another death. He has just been handed the case of Melissa Baca, a seventh-grade teacher whose body was thrown off the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Over the course of the next few days, as Lucy and Gil hunt down the culprits in each murder, they discover their cases are intertwined in the most intimate ways.Rich with details of New Mexico and the people who live there, The Replacement Child is the perfect novel for anyone who has fallen in love with the Southwest that Tony Hillerman described so artfully in his Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries.

Reviews

On Aug 11 2010, a reader said:

Not especially well written. Don't know how author won the Hillerman award. Plot was worked ok, just got bogged down in many places

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 65408
Title: THE REPLACEMENT CHILD.
Author: Barber, Christine
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very near fine in a like fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner.)
Jacket Condition: like fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0312385544
ISBN 13: 9780312385545
Publisher: St Martin's Minotaur,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (2008)
LCCN: 2008023603
Dewey: 813/.6
Keywords: first novel, santa fe, new mexico, southwest, Tony Hillerman Prize
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;

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