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.A few days later, Ella, little t...

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...

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 pawnbroker who's no stranger to cloak-and-dagger gets caught in a deadly affair with a necklace in this "fast-paced thriller" ( Kirkus Reviews )."A quick and enjoyable read." —Bookreporter.comCharlie Henry, former Special Forces operative and newly minted pawnbroker, thinks that he's finally turned a corner and the calm, quiet life he's always wanted is just ahead. But life never really works out...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

A New Mexico nun must pray she can find a killer after murder disrupts a mass in this cozy mystery series debut by the authors of the Ella Clah novels."The Thurlos write with the same grace, savvy, and sense of place that make the Ella Clah mysteries so absorbing. Sister Agatha deserves a place with Father Brown in the gallery of canny religious sleuths." — Booklist (starred review)Once she was Professor Mary Naughton, investigativ...

A string of mysterious, gruesome deaths in the Shiprock area has attracted the attention of FBI agent Diane Lopez, who is stunned to learn that one of the victims was a childhood friend. To Diane, the killer is unmistakably a vampire—but the only vampire she knows of is Lee Nez, a State Police officer who prefers his blood chilled in the refrigerator, not hot from someone's neck.Supernatural explanations for the deaths abound—some believe they are the work of the "goatsucker" spiri...