Mexican Booty: A Lucy Ripken Mystery by Henderson, J. J. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPerseus Books Group
ISBN-101593152884
ISBN-139781593152888
eBay Product ID (ePID)50884823
Product Key Features
Book TitleMexican Booty
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2006
GenreFiction
AuthorJ. J. Henderson
Book SeriesLucy Ripken Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-005801
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisRent's due and Lucy doesn't have it. Her lover Harold is on a drunken binge. Her contacts for work have all disappeared, and she's not sure where the next check's coming from. Then out of the southwestern blue comes a wake-up call with a job lead from her old friend Rosa, recently fallen in love and moved to Santa Fe. Rosa's new boyfriend has a friend with a fancy uptown gallery specializing in Precolombian art, and Lucy gets hired to shoot the gallery's catalog. When the new pieces turn out to be fakes, she parlays bad luck into a hot opportunity by pitching a story on the art forgery market. She's off to New Mexico to track the trail of the phony statues, and practically before she can unpack her suitcase she stumbles onto a pair of corpses. Soon Lucy and her friends head from New Mexico to old Mexico, to Isla Mujeres off the coast of the Yucatan, where they swim into a complex scam that starts with Precolombian art forgery and escalates into heartbreak, mayhem, and murder.In Mexican Booty , Author J. J. Henderson's second Lucy Ripken mystery, the sexy and sassy Lucy finds herself caught up in another scary, amusing, and suspenseful adventure.