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When Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee finds the victim--stripped of an identity--he calls on a Washington mogul, a crooked customs official, a Mexican smuggler, and the legendary Joe Leaphorn to solve the puzzle: why did the FBI cover up the case? Are billions of embezzled dollars at stake?
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Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
228 p.
Description
When Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee finds the victim--stripped of an identity--he calls on a Washington mogul, a crooked customs official, a Mexican smuggler, and the legendary Joe Leaphorn to solve the puzzle: why did the FBI cover up the case? Are billions of embezzled dollars at stake?
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Pub. Date
2010, ©2008
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351 pages ; 21 cm.
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Returning to her Navajo reservation after a stint with the FBI to oversee her family's struggles to balance their modern and traditional ways of life, Ella Clah investigates an attack on a powerful Navajo politician's son.
9) Skeleton man
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Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to investigate a simple robbery. But soon the trail leads back 50 years, to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon that killed a man protecting a fortune in diamonds.
10) Bad medicine
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Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1997
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350 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
11) Death walker
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
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380 pages ; 21 cm
Description
On a Navajo reservation someone murders one of its "living treasures," that is people who hold and teach the cultural and religious wisdom of the tribe. The case is taken up by tribal policewoman Ella Clah, formerly of the FBI.
12) Song of the lion
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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291 pages ; 24 cm.
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While investigating a car bomb meant for a mediator for a development planned at the Grand Canyon, tribal police officers Manuelito, Chee, and their mentor Lieutenant Leaphorn piece together clues that link the bombing to a cold case and a very patient killer with a long-range plot for revenge.
13) Red mesa
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Pub. Date
2001
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348 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police, finds herself on the run after she becomes the prime suspect in her cousin Justine's murder.
14) Plant them deep
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Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
15) Earthway
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the building of a nuclear power plant--assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella Clah's boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.
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Sunshine Vicram volume 2
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"Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo. All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that's about as easy as switching to decaf. (What...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2011
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p. cm.
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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....
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