When the Devil Doesn't Show: A Mystery (31 page)

Christine Barber is an award-winning journalist as well as a certified emergency medical technician and firefighter. She has worked as an editor at the
Santa Fe New Mexican
and a writer for the
Albuquerque Journal
and the Gallup
Independent
. She is the author of
The Replacement Child,
which won the Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a
New York Times
Notable Crime Novel, and
The Bone Fire,
which won a New Mexico Book Award. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

WHEN THE DEVIL DOESN’T SHOW.
Copyright © 2013 by Christine Barber. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.minotaurbooks.com

www.stmartins.com

Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Barber, Christine.

      When the devil doesn’t show: a mystery / Christine Barber.

          p. cm

      “A Thomas Dunne Book.”

      ISBN 978-1-250-00472-7 (hardcover)

      ISBN 978-1-250-02385-8 (e-book)

      1.  Women private investigators—Fiction.   2.  Arson investigation—Fiction.   3.  Santa Fe (N.M.)—Fiction.   I.  Title.

   PS3602.A7595W44 2013

   813'.6—dc23

2012040103

e-ISBN 9871250023858

First Edition: April 2013