Aimee Thurlo
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
When a popular chaplin is poisoned to death in the middle of Mass, Sister Agatha must bring all her worldly skepticism and savvy instincts to bear to uncover the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
New Mexico State Police Officer Lee Nez is a nightwalker, a Navajo vampire. Thanks to the quick work of a Navajo shaman, Lee can walk about in the day and prefers his blood refrigerated-but his vampire nature makes him a magnet for other supernatural emtities.
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Promising young FBI agent Ella Clah is shocked to learn that her father has been ritually murdered - and that her brother, a tribal medicine man, is the prime suspect. Ella finds it impossible to believe that her gentle brother could have killed their father. Jeopardizing her career, Ella returns to the reservation to investigate and finds that she is no longer accepted by the tribe as one of their own. Ella must combine ancient tribal wisdom with...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 12
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...
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Serving as the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world at Our Lady of Hope Monastery in the New Mexico desert, Sister Agatha is asked to investigate when a young girl claims to be receiving visitations from the Virgin Mary.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
"... introduces readers to Josephine Buck and other employees at a New Mexico trading post. When The Outpost's owner dies, Josephine, a young Navajo woman, is shocked to discover that Tom Stuart, whom she thought of as a surrogate father, has left her the business. Ben Stuart and his dad had had problems, but military service changed Ben for the better and put the two men back in each other's lives. His father's sudden death ends any possibility of...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
Description
Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police is called in to investigate when the son-in-law of a powerful Navajo businesswoman and politician is attacked, and when Ella uncovers evidence of Navajo witchcraft, she fears she is exposing herself to skinwalker magic by searching for the culprit.
10) Plant them deep
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 9
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
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 6
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Description
Sister Agatha of the Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico has become renowned-and occasionally infamous- for her crime solving skills. Now she must bring her skills to bear on her most important case yet-her friend and ally Sheriff Tom Green is a suspect in the brutal murder of his rival in the upcoming election.
12) White thunder
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
FBI area supervisor Simmons asks the Navajo Tribal Police to help locate Andrew Thomas, a federal agent who disappeared after interrupting a Navajo ritual being performed by a group of medicine men or hataaliis. Simmons voices his displeasure when Special Investigator Ella Clah is assigned to the case; he believes that Ella became an FBI agent, more than a decade earlier, due to affirmative action-and that she left because the job was too tough for...
13) Wind Spirit
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2004]
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"...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2010]
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
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Lee Nez, a Navajo and New Mexico patrolman, stumbles upon the attempted hijacking of a U.S. Army convoy. In the struggle that follows, Lee is seriously wounded but not before he has a chance to hide the convoy's valuable cargo-a container of plutonium. Hijacker Wolfgang Muller uses his vampiric blood to heal Lee's wounds, but this is not an altruistic act. Muller wants to know where the plutonium is hidden, but Lee refuses to divulge the information....
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
When the local diocese offers to pay for renovations to Our Lady of Hope monastery in exchange for housing a novice nun from a different order, the contemplative order becomes the target of violent threats after the arrival of the boisterous Sister Jo.
18) False witness
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Faced with costly repairs to the cloistered Our Lady of Hope monastery, Sister Agatha, the local extern nun with a talent for detection, accepts an offer by the ailing and wealthy John Gutierrez to search for his estranged niece, who is believed to be inthe area.
Author
Series
Trading Post volume 2
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Description
The Outpost sits just outside the Navajo Reservation. Josephine Buck inherited The Outpost from her friend and mentor, Tom Stuart. Solving his murder brought Jo face-to-face with danger . . . but reunited her with Tom's son, Ben. With Ben serving out his enlistment overseas, Jo finds that keeping the trading post going is a good distraction from her worries over his safety. The Outpost provides sanctuary for others as well. Leigh Ann Vance started...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
Description
"Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is called in on the murder of Valerie Tso, who was drowned in her bathtub. Not only is Valerie the daughter of Ella's mother's best friend, but she also is the mother of Boots, who takes care of Ella's daughter after school. Although Valerie was estranged from her family, Ella is determined to find her killer and quickly." "A Bible verse on a scrap of paper left near the body reminds Ella of a case she...