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Also by Judith Van Gieson:

The Shadow of Venus, February 2004
Paperback
Land of Burning Heat, February 2003
Paperback
Confidence Woman, February 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Vanishing Point, February 2001
Paperback (reprint)
The Stolen Blue, April 2000
Paperback (reprint)

Land of Burning Heat
Judith Van Gieson

A secret of the Mexican Inquisition. A murder in modern-day America.

A Claire Reynier Mystery
Signet Mystery
February 2003
260 pages
ISBN: 0451208005
Paperback
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Contemporary

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 condemned to death by the Inquisition in Mexico City.

But before Claire can establish the letter’s authenticity, it disappears, and tragedy visits the Santos family. Uncovering the history of a dark and dangerous past may bolster Claire’s career…at the cost of her life.