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Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and continues to haunt him.
Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge, investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Bookx
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
338 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the State Police in New Mexico, is assigned to investigate the murder of a police officer in nearby Mountainair, but his efforts are hindered by the fact that his best witness is a schizophrenic.
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee volume 16
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
318 p. : 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an undercover agent, who's been looking for clues to the whereabouts of billions of dollars missing from the Tribal Trust Funds, turns up on reservation property near Four Corners, Navajo cop Sgt. Jim Chee and Cowboy Dashee, a Hopi with the Federal Bureau of Land Management, investigate.
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement when Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide--a case with loose ends that has been troubling Leaphorn for years.
Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon. But what seems like an act of ecoterrorism turns out to be something far more nefarious and complex. Piecing together the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a scheme to disrupt the negotiations and inflame...
Author
Series
Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
351 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kevin Kerney receives an unexpected windfall -- 6,400 acres of high-country land outside Las Vegas, New Mexico -- the last thing he wants to think about is police work. But while visiting his new property, he comes upon an ailing stray dog that leads him to the butchered bones of a murder victim near the rugged mesa of Hermit's Peak. He has inherited a homicide along with a ranch.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ella Clah, special investigator with the Navajo Tribal Police, splits her time between cases and her toddler daughter. A recent puzzling convenience-store robbery, an enigmatic e-mail warning, a vengeful outlaw on the loose, a newly assigned Hopi FBI agent, and Ella's strange-acting police partner all underscore Ella's own intuitive sense that something bad will happen.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 1
Publisher
FORGE
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of Senator Yellowhair is killed in a suspicious car accident, the Senator accuses Ella and the tribe's medical examiner, Dr. Carolyn Roanhorse, of tampering with evidence and falsifying the autopsy results. An outbreak of meningitis leads to more trouble when many of those who are vaccinated begin dying from an unknown disease. Riots between Indian and White workers at the Navajo-owned mine stretch the resources of the tribal police...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ella Clah is no longer an unsure young woman recently returned to the Navajo Reservation from a stint with the FBI; she has found her place in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Diné at their worst--and at their best--as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life. Ervin Benally, son-in-law of the powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician Abigail Yellowhair, plans to bring satellite telephone service...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ella Clah has found her place on the Navajo Reservation, in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Diné at their worst -- and at their best -- as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life. The Navajo are building a nuclear power plant on the Reservation. Though the tribe voted for the plant, there are those who believe that nuclear power is inherently dangerous -- and particularly so for the Navajo, due to...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Navajo healers and members of the Plant Watchers society report that healing plants sacred to the Navajo are disappearing from the Rez, the tribal council asks Rose to catalog the plants and their growing places. She faces strong opposition from hataaliis reluctant to reveal their secret herb-gathering spots and from people who think the Rez should cultivate genetically engineered plants instead of native species. Rose finds evidence that many...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah has seen a lot of death in the decade since she returned to the Reservation, but nothing quite as bad as the latest violent murder of a young Navajo woman. Something about the crime scene reminds Ella of her days in the FBI, and she calls on Agent Dwayne Blalock for help. And thats not the only link to Ellas pastclues indicates that Ellas father may have tried to stop this killer before his own murder,...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Andrew Thomas has disappeared after interrupting a Navajo ritual being performed by a group of medicine men or hataaliis. Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is assigned to the case over the objections of Thomas's supervisor, who unfavorably recalls Ella's time with the FBI and believes her to have received special treatment because she is Native American. Determined to find the missing man, Ella studies Thomas's latest case-a fraud...
Author
Series
Ella Clah volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Is nuclear power the future for the Navajo? NEED, a consortium of businessmen, plans to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation, providing cheap power and jobs. For many Dineh, the NEED project looks like a wonderful opportunity. But many others remember all too clearly the perils of uranium mining and the destructive potential of nuclear power.Councilmember Kevin Tolino hires a bodyguard after receiving threats because...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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?...
Author
Series
Ella Clah volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
What did the dead man know? Jimmy Blacksheep, a Navajo member of the New Mexico National Guard recently returned from Iraq, is killed in what appears to be a carjacking gone wrong. But when Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah receives a mysterious package in the mail, she begins to suspect that Jimmyś death is part of something larger. Ella finds she must use Navajo lore, not FBI cryptography, to decode Jimmyś message. Tantalizing clues...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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....
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