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Confidence Woman: A Claire Reynier Mystery (Thorndike Press Large Print Senior Lifestyles Series)
Confidence Woman A Claire Reynier Mystery - Thorndike Press Large Print Senior Lifestyles Series Author:Judith Van Gieson In Confidence Woman, the third Claire Reynier mystery, the use and abuse of identity entangle Claire in a murder for which she becomes the prime suspect. Claires struggles to prove her innocence plunge her into a treacherous and ever-shifting quest to figure out who people really are. Claires troubles begin because she helps a down-... more »on-her-luck friend from college, Evelyn Martin, who asks to stay with Claire while deciding where to live and what to do following the loss of her job in Denver. A short time later Claire realizes shes the victim of identity fraud and thinks Evelyn might be the perpetrator. Not long after, police find the decomposed body of Evelyn in a house she rented in a desirable Santa Fe neighborhood. Also discovered are credit cards with Claires name on themalong with credit cards and personal items stolen from three other women Claire and Evelyn knew at college. A rare signed first edition of Herman Melvilles The Confidence-Man, missing from Claires house, is not among the items recovered by police. When a witness tells police about an argument she saw the evening of the murder, and the description fits Claire, suddenly all the twists of fate seem aligned against her. To establish her innocence, Claire draws on her expertise as a librarian at the University of New Mexicos Center for Southwest Research, contacts with rare book dealers, and her ability to see through pretense and guisein herself and others. Readers will delight in Claires detective work in what amounts to identity shell games.« less