โ Scribed by Christine Barber
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
"Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds."
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW*
Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra.
As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society.
Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book.An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that \*The Replacement Child\* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds." \*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\*
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that \*The Replacement Child\* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds." \*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\*
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that \*The Replacement Child\* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds." \*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\* E
The traditional annual burning of the giant Zozobra puppet in Santa Fe is disrupted by the discovery of a skull in the ashes, and Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya teams up with newspaper editor Lucy Newroe to identity the victim and killer.
### From Publishers Weekly The discovery of a small skull in the embers of the ceremonial blaze opening Fiesta de Santa Fe, in New Mexico, plunges newspaper editor and volunteer EMT Lucy Newroe into a disturbing mystery--and an even deeper funk--in Barber's haunting whodunit, the sequel to her 2008