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2) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
"With The Shape Shifter, Hillerman once again proves himself the master of Southwest mystery fiction, working in a Hemingway-esque tradition of pared-down writing to bring the rugged Southwest into focus."—Santa Fe New Mexican
Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is drawn back
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.
Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the maze of pipelines and pumping stations...
Author
Series
Catcher Creek volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Transforming their parents' rundown ranch in the small town of Catcher Creek, New Mexico, into a tourist destination is the toughest challenge the three Sorentino sisters ever faced. But now one of them has another fight on her hands, to keep from falling for the sexy town sheriff again. Rachel Sorentino has spent her whole life protecting her siblings from trouble, only to run headlong into it herself. Her first regret about shooting at the vandals...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But then the coach, Clint Scott, is found gunned down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, he was killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy tagged several sites in town before he apparently began work on a section of wall outside the girls'...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park. Waddell's dream begins to sour when two eco-terrorists make an opening statement by chain-sawing power lines that feed the development. One of the terrorists is killed by a bucking power pole. When fleeing conspirator is stopped by a cop and guns the lawman down, retired Posadas Sheriff Gastner becomes...
11) The Chili Queen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2003, ©2002
Language
English
Description
Her protective instincts brought out by Emma, who was sent to New Mexico to marry a man she has never met, Addie French takes her new friend under her wing, and the pair begins unfolding secrets, hatching schemes, and questioning everything they once believed.
Author
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008, ©1948
Language
English
Description
The Furies is a thundering tale of Vance Jefford, tough right hand and hot-blooded heiress to her beloved patriarch, ruthless New Mexico cattle baron T.C. Jefford. But when her widower father brings home a new flame, Vance's simmering jealousy threatens to shatter trust, draw blood, and bring ruin to the clan.
13) Dead mountain
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
16) Radigan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Radigan must defend his land from beautiful Angelina Foley, her hired gunfighters, and the old Spanish grant to his land that she somehow acquired.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared--or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors--"--from book jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A dealer in traditional Native American pottery, Hubie Schuze scours New Mexico in search of ancient treasures. In all his travels across the state, there is one place that Hubie hasn't been able to access: Trinity Site at the White Sands Missile Range, Deep within the range are ruins once occupied by the Tompiro people, whose distinctive pottery is incredibly rare and valuable. When an old associate claims to have a buyer interested in spending big...
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