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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Language
English
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...
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Series
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English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and contines to haunt him.
5) Red mesa
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 15
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
Series
Lee Nez novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
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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Series
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English
Description
"Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o' joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose. Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee--and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff--an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her...
13) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
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.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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.
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
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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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