Blackening Song is the first Ella Clah novel in award-winning authors Aimée and David Thurlo's mystery series about a Navajo FBI agent assigned to solve crimes on her reservation.Ella Clah 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 p...

Ella Clah returns in Aimee and David Thurlo's Tracking Bear . "Mystery readers who like their murders solved by applied intelligence will love Ella Clah." --Tony HillermanA group of businessmen is working to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation. The NEED project will provide cheap power to the Navajo nation, employ many who are out of work, and earn income for the tribe by selling surplus power to ...

Former FBI agent Ella Clah is now a Special Investigator with the native police force. Her brother, Clifford, a medicine man, says that her investigative skills are gifts from the spirits who guard and guide the Navajo, but Ella insists it's her FBI training that has honed her instincts.The Navajo are in turmoil. The tribal police are spread thin throughout the vast reservation, trying to rein in gang violence, murderous drunk drivers, and race riots.Ella's newest assignment ...

Death Walker is the "suspenseful and appealing" ( New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon) second mystery in award-winning authors Aimée and David Thurlo's Ella Clah series.Returning to the Navajo Reservation and solving her father's murder taught former FBI Agent Ella Clah a great deal about herself and her people, the Dineh. She has begun to accept that that there is more to the world than can be explained by FBI training and forensic sc...

A gripping Southwestern mystery thriller: Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah becomes the prime suspect in her cousin's murder.Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella's cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine's new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where Justine had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah...

A Cloistered Nun Turned Sleuth Unravels a Web of Threats and Deception"Thief in Retreat is a thoroughly absorbing, sharply drawn story with a protagonist who is courageous, intelligent, and endearing. Sister Agatha, with her restored Harley Davidson motorcycle and ex-police dog, Pax are a dynamite team that's hard to beat… I eagerly await Sister Agatha's next adventure." – Earlene Fowler, author of Delectable MountainsOur Lady of Hope, an aging monastery in...

Our Lady of Hope Monastery can't catch a break. Situated in rural New Mexico, the cloistered monastery squeaks by on donations and various craft and skilled jobs suited to their cloistered, contemplative life. But when a stolen SUV crashes through their outside walls, they are faced with financial demands that far exceed their means. So when a major donor offers a great deal of money for what seems a simple task, they are quick to accept. The very ill John Gutierrez is looking for his estr...

Aimee and David Thurlo's newest mystery Ghost Medicine, featuring Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah.Ella takes all her cases personally, but some cases are more personal than others. The murder of Harry Ute is one of those—not only because Ella and Harry dated, years ago, but because Harry was once a member of her investigative team. Ella's team is as close to her as family and a blow against one is a blow against all.Harry's been working for Bruce "Teen...

In this gripping Ella Clah mystery, the Navajo Tribal Police detective must race against time to find a missing FBI agent and uncover a web of fraud and sacred secrets.When FBI agent Andrew Thomas disappears after interrupting a Navajo ritual, area supervisor Simmons reluctantly turns to Ella Clah for help. Despite his doubts about Ella's capabilities, she is determined to find the missing man, even if it means questioning her own brother, a hataalii medicine man.

A Navajo Police Special Investigator walks a dangerous line between two worlds in this gripping mystery thriller.Once an FBI agent, Ella Clah is now a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police. She walks a tightrope between the Navajo and white worlds, fully accepted by neither but needed by both. Ella's brother, Clifford, a hataali or medicine man, says that her investigative skills are a gift from the spirits who guard and guide the Dineh, but Ella insists it's...

Ella Clah returns in a mystery that leads back to the Navajo Codetalkers of World War II. Eleventh in the series that started with Blackening Song .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 th...

Lee Nez is a nightwalker-a Navajo vampire-and a New Mexico state police officer. Investigating cop-killing smugglers who are bringing in jewels and silver from Mexico, Lee is teamed once again with sexy FBI agent Diane Lopez, who knows Lee is a vampire and is attracted to him nonetheless.The smugglers are Navajo shapeshifters or skinwalkers-and the cop and the FBI agent must kill them all without revealing that the smugglers are werewolves or that Lee is a vampire. Complicating mat...