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1) Shutter
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"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases -- she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't...
2) Red mesa
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Forge
Pub. Date
2001
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Struggling with her mother's marriage and her ex's attempts to gain custody of their daughter, Ella Clah investigates the murder of a New Mexico National Guard soldier whose death points to corruption in the victim's unit.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Searching for an FBI agent who has gone missing on the reservation, Navajo Police investigator Ella Clah learns that the agent was involved in a social security fraud case and may have been targeted by one of Ella's FBI colleagues.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
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English
Description
Ella Clah, a special investigator with the Navajo Police, finds herself at a loss for clues when a rash of murders accompanies the proposal by a group of businessmen to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
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English
Description
Contemplating a lucrative job offer that would force her to leave the Reservation, Navajo officer Ella Clah wonders how the move would affect her daughter and investigates an airfield shooting that involves an alternative-fuel lobbyist and a tribal attorney.
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Forge
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Shocked by the murder of a young Navajo woman, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah calls in FBI Agent Dwayne Blalock for help, but she soon realizes that the murderer may have a link to her own past and to her father, murdered a decade earlier.
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Forge
Pub. Date
2011
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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....
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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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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Pub. Date
2023
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English
Description
"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases--she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't...
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