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Confidence Woman
Signet, Feb 2002, 5.99, 272 pp.
ISBN 0451205006
After twenty-eight years of marriage, Claire Reyner divorces her philandering husband, leaves her Arizona home and job to become a librarian at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico. Claire is a very bright, self-contained woman who looks at all the ramifications before coming to a conclusion. One finds it ironic that this very cautious woman keeps finding herself i...
Land of Burning Heat
Signet, Feb 2003, 5.99, 272 pp.
ISBN 0451208005
Archivist Claire Reynier works at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. One day Isabel Santos informs Claire that she tripped over a loose brick on the floor but when she investigated it she found a wooden cross with a note hidden in it. Isabel made a copy of the document and shows it to Claire who believes it was the last note written by a Jewish mystic...
The Shadow of Venus
Signet, Feb 2004, 5.99, 272 pp.
ISBN 0452211340
Claire, a middle aged librarian works at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico. At a poetry reading she arranged, a young woman she met once before offers her a seat and admires her looks. When a belligerent homeless woman bursts into the room, the campus police escort her out and Claire closes the door. The young lady who saved her a seat bolts from the room because sh...
