"Albuquerque lawyer/sleuth Neil Hamel faces one of humanity's most primal foes --- fire --- when she investigates the death by flames of an elite firefighter in the Colorado wilderness. It is high summer and the Southwest is tinderbox dry when Neil is approached by the parents of Joni Barker, a "hotshot" (as wildland firefighters are known) who was killed in a highly publicized blaze that threatened several expensive homes. Joni's parents suspect the Forest Service's negligence to be the cause of their daughter's death --- not Joni's negligence, as the Forest Service claims. Neil, herself no stranger to government subterfuge, sets out to prove the Barker's suspicions. As she investigates Joni's death, she is drawn into the rarefied, mythic world of hotshots and the fierce battles that smolder around their work."
004541 
Price: 14.35 USD

"When an elderly woman accused of murder asks Neil Hamel to defend her, the lawyer and sometime sleuth accepts, mainly because homicide is a lot more interesting than her usual real estate and divorce cases. The Albuquerque police say that Martha Conover intentionally ran over a young woman whose crushed body was found near Martha's dented car-the same young woman who had accidentally killed Martha's grandson exactly three years before. As Neil searches for the truth, she travels across the landscape of today's Southwest and deep into the pasts of both the victim and the accused, where answers lie side by side with even more troubling questions. . . and danger waits for those who ask."
001574 
Price: 11.00 USD