Vanishing Point A Claire Reynier Mystery - Claire Reynier Mysteries Author:Judith Van Gieson "In Judith Van Gieson's Vanishing Point: A Claire Reynier Mystery, her second Southwestern adventure after The Stolen Blue, archivist and rare-books maven Reynier is thrilled when a University of New Mexico graduate student finds the missing journal of Jonathan Vail, a legendary young writer who disappeared 30 years earlier . . . . A treat for t... more »he academically inclined."Publishers Weekly When talented young writer Jonathan Vail vanishes without a trace on a camping trip, he leaves behind a wilderness journal, and an acclaimed first novel. But questions abound. Has the twenty-three-year-old prodigy been dispatched by thieves? Does his girlfriend, whose version of Vails disappearance in Utahs Slickrock Canyon satisfies no one, know more about Vails fate than she is telling? And what of Vails eagerly anticipated work-in-progress - a new canyonlands journal - apparently lost along with his body? Flash forward more than thirty years, when a rock slide reveals a hidden cave near Slickrock Canyon. Vails body isnt recovered, but the missing journal is. When it is presented for authentication to Claire Reynier, an archivist and rare-books expert at the University of New Mexicos Center for Southwest Research, danger and mayhem suddenly come to anyone who touches the faded spiral notebook or seeks to discover what happened to Jonathan. Suspenseful twists of plot make this story a page-turner. Vanishing Point, the second in Judith Van Giesons Claire Reynier mystery series, will please all mystery buffs who seek authentic Southwest settings, including ones in and around Albuquerque and the University of New Mexico, the town of Madrid, and the wide skies and long shadows of the Southwests canyonlands. Lovers of the literary mystery, meanwhile, will delight in Reyniers detective work.« less