Judith Van Gieson

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2004
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Full Series List in Order

A Claire Reynier Mystery

1 - The Stolen Blue (Mar-2000)
2 - Vanishing Point (Feb-2001)
3 - Confidence Woman (Feb-2002)
4 - Land of Burning Heat (Feb-2003)
5 - The Shadow of Venus (Feb-2004)

A Neil Hamel Mystery

1 - North of the Border (Jun-1988)
2 - Raptor (Dec-1989)
3 - The Other Side of Death (Jan-1991)
4 - The Wolf Path (Feb-1992)
5 - The Lies That Bind (Sep-1993)
6 - Parrot Blues (Jan-1995)
7 - Hotshots (Jul-1996)
8 - Ditch Rider (Sep-1998)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • North of the Border

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 1

    "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 w...

  • Raptor

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 2

    SAVAGERY FROM THE SKY. MURDER ON THE GROUND. 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 compelled the woman named Neil Hamel to leave the stucco comforts of Albuquerqu...

  • The Other Side of Death

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 3

    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,...

  • The Wolf Path

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 4

    MAN -- THE DEADLIEST ANIMAL The temperature is hitting 104 degrees when Neil Hamel leaves her shoestring Albuquerque law practice for the Soledad border country. As a favor to an old friend, Neil has agreed to help a radical environmentalist. An A...

  • The Lies That Bind

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 5

    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....

  • Parrot Blues

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 6

    A FULL-TIME ATTORNEY AND A PART-TIME SLEUTH, SHE'S ALL BUSINESS WHEN A RARE BIRD FLIES THE COOP She may be a divorce lawyer, but Neil Hamel uses her PI's instincts when a millionaire's rare indigo macaw and newly endangered wife are kidnapped toge...

  • Hotshots

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 7

    BURNING FOR REVENGE It is a devastating tragedy: In the South Canyon of Colorado's Thunder Mountain, a sudden cold front whips a small, containable fire into a raging inferno, killing nine heroic firefighters from the Duke City Hotshots. The U.S. ...

  • Ditch Rider

    A Neil Hamel Mystery - 8

    A teenager has been murdered. Unfortunately, in Neil Hamel's new 'hood that's not big news--until Neil's battered thirteen-year-old neighbor Cheyanne Morales confesses to the shooting and asks Neil, a lawyer with a PI's instincts, to represent her. ...

  • The Stolen Blue

    A Claire Reynier Mystery - 1

    Claire is thrilled when her old friend Burke Lovell donates his collection of valuable books to the university where she works. But the morning after she arrives at his ranch in the remote region known as "the Blue" to collect the bequest, Burke is f...



  • Vanishing Point

    A Claire Reynier Mystery - 2

    Judith Van Gieson's The Stolen Blue introduced readers to Claire Reynier, expert in rare books and seemingly insoluble crimes. In Vanishing Point, she returns to investigate the strange disappearance of a celebrated author.... Jonathan Vail's nove...

  • Lightning Strikes Twice

    in And the Dying is Easy

    WHAT I SOLVED ON MY SUMMER VACATION. Detectives make their reputations solving cases of murder and mayhem. Ever wonder what happens when they try to get away from it all? In this summertime crime spree, twenty of today's best mystery writers--f...

  • Confidence Woman

    A Claire Reynier Mystery - 3

    When Claire Reynier becomes the victim of credit card fraud, she's stunned to discover that Evelyn Martin, an old college friend and sorority sister, is the culprit. She's even more shocked when Evelyn turns up dead. According to the police, Evelyn a...

  • Land of Burning Heat

    A Claire Reynier Mystery - 4

    Archivist Claire Reynier may have a priceless find on her hands. A woman named Isabel Santos has discovered a faded document hidden for hundreds of years under her family's adobe house. It could be the controversial last words of a Jewish mystic con...

  • The Shadow of Venus

    A Claire Reynier Mystery - 5

    When a young woman is found dead in the basement of the university library--with an illustration from a valuable astronomy book beside her--Claire recognizes the victim as someone she had met, but whose name she never knew. To learn more, Claire must...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Judith Van Gieson has published 14 books.

Judith Van Gieson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Shadow of Venus, was published in February 2004.

The first book by Judith Van Gieson, North of the Border, was published in June 1988.

Yes. Judith Van Gieson has 2 series.
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