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Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 12
Language
English
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Description
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...
2) Bad medicine
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On a Navajo reservation, police officer Ella Clah investigates two murders which appear to be linked with conflict between whites and Indians at a nearby mine. The probe is complicated by the whites' perception that she is pro-Indian while Indians think she is pro-white because she used to work for the FBI.
3) Death walker
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
5) Red mesa
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
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 the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect.
Stunned by Justine's death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A serial killer stalks young Navajo men and women ... and Ella Clah's family might be next in his sights, in Aimee and David Thurlo's Turquoise Girl!
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 a series of violent murders of young Navajo. Something about the crime scene reminds Ella of her days in the FBI, and she calls on Agent Blalock for help....
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
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....
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 10
Language
English
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Description
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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11) Changing woman
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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