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Latest News! Tony Hillerman's latest Joe Leaphorn Mystery. I don't know where I've been, but I completely missed the 2006 release of The Shape Shifter. I had given up all hope of ever reading a new Joe Leaphorn or Jim Chee book again. How happy I am to be wrong. When Tony Hillerman published his first mystery novel about the Native American Navaho Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, I doubt anyone realized the impact this would have on the
police procedural mystery world. What he did is launch a whole new genre of mystery featuring Native Americans located on various Indian reservations throughout the United States that
are not only a whodunit, but popular anthropology and Native American beliefs. Besides just being good mysteries, we find ourselves becoming involved with the characters as they try to come to terms with the difference between non-reservation Native
Americans, reservation, traditional Native Americans, and the white populations near the reservations. Hillerman and others of this genre have done much to open the eyes of many people
about the Native American cultures. It seems like Americans can't get enough of this genre. |
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by Aimée and David Thurlo A young Navajo woman returns to the reservation in New Mexico as a special investigator and finds rejoining her family and tribe is harder than solving crimes.
Sometimes, she's not sure whether she's a Native American or the L.A. woman others call her in derision. No matter what she does while solving mysteries, she seems to offend someone. |
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by Aimée and David Thurlo This quirky, fun series features a Navajo Vampire who works as a state patrolman and a beautiful, young FBI agent who resembles his long dead wife. Located
throughout New Mexico. This couple deals with skinwalkers and nightwalkers as they work with the FBI, Native American police and New Mexico State police while they try to solve mysteries
and stay out of the sun as much as possible. |
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by Aimée and David Thurlo The newest Thurlo mystery series features Sister Agatha an extern nun from the Our Lady of Perpetual Hope monastery neary Albequerque, New Mexico. Sister Agatha became a nun late in life, after a career as a journalist. She uses her natural curiosity and journalistic skills to solve murder mysteries that occur in Bernalillo the nearest town. For muscle she uses Pax, a retired trained police dogs. For transportaion she uses the monastery's decripit car, the Anti-Chrysler when in runs or when the weather is bad. Otherwise Sister Agatha cruises in a restored classic Harley motorcycle complete with a sidecare for Pas. For fun, you should read the Sister Agatha novels. |
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