Land of Burning Heat: A Claire Reynier Mystery

Judith Van Gieson. University of New Mexico Press, $12.95 (264pp) ISBN 978-0-8263-3172-4

In Judy Van Gieson's tantalizing Land of Burning Heat: A Claire Reynier Mystery, her fourth novel to feature the New Mexico archivist and sometime detective, Claire gets on the trail of a 16th-century document allegedly written by a Shephardic Jewish mystic fleeing the Inquisition in Mexico City. What does a present-day murder have to do with religious persecution centuries earlier?

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