Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery (SIGNED HARCOVER TRUE FIRST PRINTING)

Van Gieson, Judith

ISBN 10: 0826323839 / ISBN 13: 9780826323835

Published by Univ of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., 2001

About this Item

Highly praised mystery series involving a special collections archivist. A great BIBLIOMYSTERY series. This is the true first printing hardcover edition, not the mass market paperback. DJ in archival mylar Broadart protector. NO remainder marks, NOT price clipped, NEVER read. Carefully wrapped in both white plain paper and bubble wrap to PREVENT shipping damage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery (SIGNED HARCOVER TRUE FIRST PRINTING)
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826323839
• ISBN 13: 9780826323835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author on Title Page
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bibliomysteries

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Suspenseful twists of plot make this story a page-turner. Vanishing Point, the second in Judith Van Gieson's Claire Reynier mystery series, will please all mystery buffs who seek authentic Southwest settings, including ones in and around Albuquerque and the University of New Mexico, the town of Madrid, and the wide skies and long shadows of the Southwest's canyonlands. Lovers of the literary mystery, meanwhile, will delight in Reynier's detective work.

About the Author

Judith Van Gieson is the author of more than a dozen mystery novels, including the popular Neil Hamel series. She lives in Albuquerque. She was the winner of the Bravos Award for Literary Excellence from the Albuquerque Arts Alliance in April, 2002.