Neil Hamel Series by Judith Van Gieson (1, 7-8)
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Overview: Judith Van Gieson is the author of a children’s book, a collection of poetry and short stories, and thirteen mysteries. Her short stories have appeared in several mystery anthologies. In the first mystery series eight books, featuring female Albuquerque attorney/sleuth Neil Hamel, were published by HarperCollins. Neil’s work often involved environmental issues including endangered species and wildfires. Books in this series were published in England, Japan and Germany. It was optioned by CBS. The Lies That Bind was a finalist for the Shamus Award for best detective novel. The series won the Spirit of Magnifico Literary Award.
Genre: Mystery
1. North of the Border
On one side of the border, a murder; on the other, a killer. In between stands Neil Hamel, a woman with a passion for the truth.
"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 was a face-to-face meeting with a corpse, a Mexican lawyer with a diamond pinky ring and a throat slit from ear to ear. Returning home to Albuquerque, Neil couldn’t let go of the tangled scheme she had uncovered. Looking for the truth, she finds human predators.
7. Hotshots
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. Forest Service blames the dead; a victim’s grieving mother charges the government with negligence. Into this flammable mix enters Albuquerque lawyer Neil Hamel, hired to pursue the explosive wrongful death case.
Mounting an investigation of her own, Neil interviews shocked survivors of the fire, then hikes the charred remains of the forest where the Hotshots met their end. But after retracing the steps of their flight, she will face the terror of their last gasps of breath. Because someone is playing with fire…
8. Ditch Rider
As Neil settles into her new house in Albuquerque’s North Valley, she befriends thirteen-year-old Cheyanne Morales, who lives in a nearby trailer with her mother and her younger half-brother. Cheyanne’s teenage angst is complicated by the pressures that gang culture imposes on her and her peers. Neil gets a harrowing glimpse of these pressures when a fifteen-year-old is shot to death not far from Neil’s new home. The cops suspect a rival gang member, but late one night, a battered Cheyanne shows up at Neil’s front door to confess that she was the shooter.
The authorities are reluctant to accept Cheyanne’s story–as a minor she’d get only a slap on the wrist–and Neil is dubious too, but she agrees to represent her young friend. With Cheyanne in custody, Neil uncovers chilling evidence that the girl’s family and friends intend to take justice into their own hands. Only Neil and her lover, the Kid, can prevent another tragedy from playing out along the ditches of her new neighborhood.
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1. North of the Border: http://ceesty.com/wLuGu3
7. Hotshots: http://ceesty.com/wLuGu6
8. Ditch Rider: http://ceesty.com/wLuGiw
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1. North of the Border: http://ceesty.com/wLuGii
7. Hotshots: http://ceesty.com/wLuGif
8. Ditch Rider: http://ceesty.com/wLuGij
