Replacement Child

Late on a Monday night editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady - an anonymous tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with tips from her police scanner. But while Lucy is checking out the tip, she discovers Scanner Lady has been killed...Lucy tries to enlist the help of Detective Gil Montoya, but his mind is on other problems, the case of a seventh-grade teacher whose body was thrown off the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. As Lucy and Gil hunt down two killers, they discover their cases are intertwined in the most intimate ways.