Ella Clah mysteries
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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FBI agent Ella Clah returns to her Navajo reservation to find the killer of her father, a Christian minister. The probe is complicated by her long stay in the white world. While she is convinced that she has retained her Indian soul, the locals don't think so. By the authors of Second Shadow.
2) Death walker
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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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.
3) Bad medicine
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[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella's cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine's new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect.
Stunned by Justine's death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo...
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
10) Wind spirit
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 10
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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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Ella Clah mysteries volume 11
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English
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In White Thunder, the tenth Ella Clah novel from Aimee and David Thurlo, Ella must find a missing FBI agent who interrupted a Sing.
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...
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 12
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English
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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
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 13
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English
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A serial killer stalks young Navajo men and women ... and Ella Clah's family might be next in his sights, in Aimee and David Thurlo's Turquoise Girl!
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah has seen a lot of death in the decade since she returned to the Reservation, but nothing quite as bad as a series of violent murders of young Navajo. Something about the crime scene reminds Ella of her days in the FBI, and she calls on Agent Blalock for help....
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 14
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English
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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.
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English
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Two gun men ambush Ella Clah, a special investigator for the Navajo Tribal Police; attorney Kevin Tolino, Ella's ex-boyfriend and father of her 11-year-old daughter; and Afghanistan war hero Adam Longwolf, now a Navajo lobbyist, at the landing strip outside Shiprock, N. Mex., shortly after their return from a trip to Washington, D.C. Ella and Kevin escape serious injury, but not Adam, who it turns out was carrying ,000 in a Monopoly game though he's...
17) Black thunder
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2011.
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English
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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....
18) Ghost medicine
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 18
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English
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"Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job much harder--no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches. Harry's latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust...