THE REPLACEMENT CHILD
by Barber, Christine
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0312385544
- ISBN 13
- 9780312385545
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
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
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020518
- Title
- THE REPLACEMENT CHILD
- Author
- Barber, Christine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0312385544
- ISBN 13
- 9780312385545
- Publisher
- Minotaur Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 271
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- LCCN
- 2008023603
- Dewey
- 813/.6
- Product_type
- 2
Terms of Sale
Joe Staats, Bookseller
About the Seller
Joe Staats, Bookseller
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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