Aimée Thurlo
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Trading Post volume 2
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The Outpost sits just outside the Navajo Reservation. Josephine Buck inherited The Outpost from her friend and mentor, Tom Stuart. Solving his murder brought Jo face-to-face with danger . . . but reunited her with Tom's son, Ben. With Ben serving out his enlistment overseas, Jo finds that keeping the trading post going is a good distraction from her worries over his safety. The Outpost provides sanctuary for others as well. Leigh Ann Vance started...
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 12
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"What seems to be a carjacking gone wrong leads to the death of Jimmy Blacksheep, a Navajo member of the New Mexico National Guard recently returned from Iraq. When Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah receives a mysterious package in the mail, she begins to suspect that Jimmy's death is part of something larger. Complicating the case is the fact that Jimmy's brother, Samuel Blacksheep, is also a cop, on the Farmington PD. Samuel is also ostensibly...
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 3
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Serving as the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world at Our Lady of Hope Monastery in the New Mexico desert, Sister Agatha is asked to investigate when a young girl claims to be receiving visitations from the Virgin Mary.
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2013.
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"... introduces readers to Josephine Buck and other employees at a New Mexico trading post. When The Outpost's owner dies, Josephine, a young Navajo woman, is shocked to discover that Tom Stuart, whom she thought of as a surrogate father, has left her the business. Ben Stuart and his dad had had problems, but military service changed Ben for the better and put the two men back in each other's lives. His father's sudden death ends any possibility of...
5) Enemy Way
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 4
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1998
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Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah must draw on all her analytical skills as she confronts an escalation of gang violence on the reservation, the murder of her best friend during a burglary, and her mother's near-fatal encounter with a drunk driver.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
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Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police is called in to investigate when the son-in-law of a powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician is attacked, and when Ella uncovers evidence of Navajo witchcraft, she fears she is exposing herself to skinwalker magic by searching for the culprit.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
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"Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is called in on the murder of Valerie Tso, who was drowned in her bathtub. Not only is Valerie the daughter of Ella's mother's best friend, but she also is the mother of Boots, who takes care of Ella's daughter after school. Although Valerie was estranged from her family, Ella is determined to find her killer and quickly." "A Bible verse on a scrap of paper left near the body reminds Ella of a case she...
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
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For the Navajo, to "walk in beauty"-to stay in balance with the natural world around one-is the greatest gift, and the greatest task, of one's life. For Rose Destea, to walk in beauty has meant threading a difficult path between traditionalist and modernist ways. Though she worships at the family shrine, her husband was a Christian preacher. Though her son, Clifford Destea, is a respected hataalii or medicine man, her daughter, Ella Clah, is a Special...
9) Red Mesa
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 6
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[2001]
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When Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is accused of murdering her cousin and fellow officer, the police believe she has turned evil. Her brother and mother must protect Ella's daughter, and the FBI agents and Navajo police she helped train are on her trail, using her own techniques to find her.
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"A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation. Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police. Identifying the dead isn't easy--some had been buried for years--and at first the cases look to be nothing but dead ends....
11) Tracking Bear
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 8
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When a young police officer's death comes under investigation, Navajo Special Investigator Ella Clah finds that faulty equipment played a major role in his demise. The underfunded Tribal Police can't update or repair anything due to the same financial problems beleaguering the entire tribe. Looking for funds, the tribe begins seriously researching a plan to build, own, and operate a new type of nuclear plant, but the fear of uranium mining divides...
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 6
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Sister Agatha of the Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico has become renowned-and occasionally infamous- for her crime solving skills. Now she must bring her skills to bear on her most important case yet-her friend and ally Sheriff Tom Green is a suspect in the brutal murder of his rival in the upcoming election.
13) White thunder
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 11
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[2005]
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FBI area supervisor Simmons asks the Navajo Tribal Police to help locate Andrew Thomas, a federal agent who disappeared after interrupting a Navajo ritual being performed by a group of medicine men or hataaliis. Simmons voices his displeasure when Special Investigator Ella Clah is assigned to the case; he believes that Ella became an FBI agent, more than a decade earlier, due to affirmative action-and that she left because the job was too tough for...
14) Wind Spirit
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 10
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[2004]
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"Before the new nuclear power plant can be built, the power company must help the Navajo reclaim a long-unused uranium mine. The plan is to collapse the old shafts and refill the area with new soil, but the first explosions trigger unplanned subsidiary collapses. Ella Clah, attending the dedication and purification ceremony, acts quickly when she sees a young child sliding into the exposed tunnels. She saves his life but is herself trapped underground"...
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
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[2010]
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As a people, the Navajo seek to walk in beauty and find a balance between modern and traditional culture. As a mother, a daughter, and a member of the Navajo Nation, Ella Clah finds her own way to walk-but as a police officer, she seeks both justice and truth. When Never-ending-snake begins, Ella is returning from a trip to Washington, DC, where she has been presented with a lucrative offer of employment with a private security firm. The catch?...
16) Blackening song
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 1
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Blackening Song is the debut of Navajo FBI agent Ella Clah, who returns to the reservation to investigate the murder of her father, a minister. The ritual nature of the killing makes Ella's brother, a medicine man, the prime suspect. Without cooperation from the tribe, the FBI, or the local police, Ella must plumb the depths of the struggle between traditionalist and modernist forces among the Navajo to find her father's murderer.
17) Ghost medicine
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 18
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2013.
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"Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job much harder--no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches. Harry's latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust...
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 5
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[2008]
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When the local diocese offers to pay for renovations to Our Lady of Hope monastery in exchange for housing a novice nun from a different order, the contemplative order becomes the target of violent threats after the arrival of the boisterous Sister Jo.
19) Bad medicine
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 3
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En route to a homicide scene--Navajo rights activist Stanley Bitah has been clubbed to death--tribal police officer Ella Clah stops to check out a report of a drunk driver, only to find that Angelina Yellowhair isn't drunk but that she'd been fatally poisoned even before her car crashes.
20) Shooting Chant
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 5
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[2000]
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Former FBI agent, now special investigator with the Navajo Police, Ella Clah knows it's her police training, not the special gift of sensing she's supposed to have inherited from her clan ancestors, that accounts for her unease when troubling things begin happening on the reservation. Lab reports on pregnant women have been stolen from the health clinic, a Navajo guard at the LabKote factory has been murdered, and two native leaders have been kidnapped....