Aimée Thurlo
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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...
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Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the monastery, now, as an extern it is Sister Agatha's role to be the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. It is the skills from both her past and current lives that she must bring to the task assigned to her by the Archbishop of her...
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Ella Clah, a member of the Navajo nation and special investigator for the Navajo police, returns home from a trip to Washington D.C., and tries to decide whether to accept a promising job offer that would force her and her daughter to leave the reservation, but is distracted when gunfire makes her one of three suspected targets in attempted murder.
5) Red mesa
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Ella Clah, a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police, finds herself on the run after she becomes the prime suspect in her cousinn Justine's murder.
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Sister Agatha of the Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico has become reknowned-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.
11) Shooting chant
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Special Investigator for the Navajo Police Ella Clah, is torn between her new pregnancy and her dangerous career when feuding between traditionalist and modernist Navajo tribes heats up with sabotage, vandalism, and murder that she must quell.
12) Bad faith
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Extern nun Sister Agatha finds herself in the midst of a murder investigation when Father Anselm dies at the monastery and the local sheriff suspects the nuns did the deed themselves.