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The Replacement Child: A Mystery (edition 2008)

by Christine Barber

Series: Lucy Newroe (1)

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Newroe investigates when an anonymous elderly tipster turns up dead. Montoya is on the case of a teacher whose body was thrown into the Rio Grande. They discover their cases are intertwined in the most intimate ways.
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Title:The Replacement Child: A Mystery
Authors:Christine Barber
Info:St. Martin's Minotaur (2008), Edition: 1st St. Martin's Minotaur Ed, Hardcover, 288 pages
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plotted fairly well-liked setting- wasn't entirely sure how I felt about the lead character. Psychologically interesting motives. ( )
  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
The second Tony HIllerman Prize for a mystery set in the Southwest that I've read. This book focuses on the Northern New Mexican and Hispanic (the favored term there) culture. Lucy is a transplant newspaper editor who trips into a murder investigation after getting a tip from a lady who listens to police scanners. She inserts herself in the investigation through the sheer force of her personality, and ends up helping to solve it. The mystery wasn't much of a mystery, as the bad guys are evident almost from the beginning. The author's keen eye for New Mexico and the diverse culture is interesting, though she hits the same notes a few too many times.

2 1/2 bones!!! ( )
  blackdogbooks | Oct 30, 2022 |
This novel is very strong in evoking the landscape and culture of northern New Mexico, and the two central characters are well drawn and engaging. But the plot is overloaded. There's too much going on in too many directions, which makes it hard to keep up momentum and interest. Also, I guessed the identity of one of the main villains early on, with two others looking pretty obvious well before the book wound up. Nonetheless, I like the way she writes about Santa Fe, so much so that I will read her two later books. ( )
  annbury | Jan 28, 2021 |
Scanner Lady tells Lucy she overheard two cops discussing a dead body. ( )
  pharrm | Aug 25, 2009 |
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The moment I saw the brilliant, proud morning shine high up over the deserts of Santa Fe, something stood still in my soul, and I started to attend.
--D. H. Lawrence
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To Tony Hillerman and the city of Santa Fe.
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Lucy Newroe hated the word supererogation.
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Newroe investigates when an anonymous elderly tipster turns up dead. Montoya is on the case of a teacher whose body was thrown into the Rio Grande. They discover their cases are intertwined in the most intimate ways.

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A quick New Mexican romp through family sorrows and an awakening young editor who fears her anonymous tipster "the Scanner Lady" was killed because of her. The pace is great until it peaks and the ending was a little disappointing, but living in the New Mexico sun, even in winter, for a cold and icy northeasternly breeze of 10, kept me warm and reading one page after another for a few uninterrupted hours.
A nice first book. Not award winning. Not stop in the middle because this is torture!
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