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Books : Mystery & Thrillers : Authors, A-Z : ( V ) : Van Gieson, Judith
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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New Mexico rare book expert Claire Reynier is the victim of identity fraud-and the chief suspect in the con woman's murder-in this new mystery from a writer whose work has been praised as "crisp, taut, and utterly compelling" (Entertainment Weekly).
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From the acclaimed author of Confidence Woman...a secret of the Spanish Inquisition is uncovered-and its murderous wrath unleashed-in the modern American Southwest.
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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.In pursuit of this elusive species, Neil witnesses a sight even more awesome—a body plunging off a cliff. Soon she is swept into a murder case that brings together militant environmentalists and high-stakes poachers, federal investigators, and even an Arabian prince. Suddenly, in a wilderness where she has no shelter and little chance for survival, Neil is the target of human predators.
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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.
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The “annual” Saint Patrick’s Day party hosted by Tim and Jamie Malone in their small northern New Mexico community is their first in many years. But it also marks their last as they prepare to move to the Midwest. For Albuquerque attorney Neil Hamel, going to the party is a reunion of sorts with various old friends she spent a year carousing with in a small town in Mexico in the late 1960s. Just about everyone seems to have made some move from hippie to mainstream except Lonnie Darmer, who—as in the old days—gets too drunk to drive home. Neil drives them both to Lonnie’s little house in Santa Fe and wakes the next morning to discover her missing. Lonnie is found dead in an Anasazi ruin in the mountains near Santa Fe, her body unscathed.The police immediately conclude Lonnie committed suicide, and her friends seem almost relieved to concur—all except Neil. As she investigates her friend’s death, suspects suddenly abound. Even Neil herself comes under suspicion, as the real killer draws ever closer, eager to satisfy a newfound appetite for killing.
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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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In Judith Van Gieson's eighth outing, feisty lawyer/sleuth Neil Hamel immerses herself and her devotees in her new Albuquerque neighborhood--crisscrossed by irrigation ditches and troubled by gang violence--when she defends a teenage girl who claims she killed a gang member.As Neil settles into her new house in Albuquerque's North Valley, she befriends thirteen-year-old Cheyanne Morales, who lives in a nearby trailer with her mother and her younger half-brother. Cheyanne's teenage angst is complicated by the pressures that gang culture imposes on her and her peers. Neil gets a harrowing glimpse of these pressures when a fifteen-year-old is shot to death not far from Neil's new home. The cops suspect a rival gang member, but late one night, a battered Cheyanne shows up at Neil's front door to confess that she was the shooter.
The authorities are reluctant to accept Cheyanne's story--as a minor she'd get only a slap on the wrist--and Neil is dubious too, but she agrees to represent her young friend. With Cheyanne in custody, Neil uncovers chilling evidence that the girl's family and friends intend to take justice into their own hands. Only Neil and her lover, the Kid, can prevent another tragedy from playing out along the ditches of her new neighborhood.
With its intricate, timelyplot, deft characterizations, and artful evocations of place, Ditch Rider confirms Judith Van Gieson's reputation as one of the foremost writers of Southwestern suspense.
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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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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.