Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery (Claire Reynier Mysteries)

Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery (Claire Reynier Mysteries)
by Judith Van Gieson

Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery (Claire Reynier Mysteries)
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Author: Judith Van Gieson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN: 0826323839
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Book Reviews of Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery (Claire Reynier Mysteries)

Book Review: Stiff and dull
Summary: 2 Stars

I enjoyed Van Giesen's Neil Hammel series very much, but Claire leaves me cold. She is sooooo cold herself. And critical. She finds fault with every person she meets. The plot is not bad, but the denouement is an explanation, not something that I felt was revealed by bits of information gathered along the way.

I got really tired of the landscape and weather descriptions.

Why did Van Giesen set up the bookseller, John, as a potential boyfriend for Clarie and then make him so unappealing?

Claire is a stiff. I've read three of these -- can't imagine why -- and won't read anymore.

Summary of Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery (Claire Reynier Mysteries)

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.

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