Books by Aimee Thurlo and Complete Book Reviews
Aimee and David Thurlo. Forge, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2452-8
The Thurlos (Black Thunder) are unlikely to please either romance or suspense readers with this pedestrian endeavor. Josephine "Jo" Buck, an apprentice Navajo medicine woman in Farmington, N.Mex., values her relationship with her employer and father
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, John E. Stith, Author, David Thurlo, Joint Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85520-8
Once again, tradition is clashing with the forces of change on the Navajo reservation where former FBI agent Ella Clah (Bad Medicine, 1997, etc.) is a special investigator. Violent confrontations between two rival gangs, the Many Devils and the...
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Aimée and David Thurlo, Forge, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2450-4
At the start of the Thurlos' engaging 16th Ella Clah mystery (after 2009's Earthway), two gun men ambush Ella, a special investigator for the Navajo Tribal Police; attorney Kevin Tolino, Ella's ex-boyfriend and father of her 11-year-old daughter;...
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Aim%C3%A9e and David Thurlo. Forge, $24.99 (336) ISBN 9780765324559
The Thurlos (Black Thunder) are unlikely to please either romance or suspense readers with this pedestrian endeavor. Josephine “Jo" Buck, an apprentice medicine woman in the Diné (Navajo) community of Farmington, N.M., values her relationship with...
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David and Aimée Thurlo. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-02900-3
A gorgeous silver and turquoise necklace fuels theft and murder in the Thurlos’ fast-paced and plot-driven sequel to 2014’s The Pawnbroker. Charlie Henry and his staff are well aware that people sometimes try to pass off stolen goods at pawn shops...
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David and Aimée Thurlo. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-02798-6
This bracing series debut from the Thurlos (Ghost Medicine) introduces Charlie Henry, a reservation-born Navajo, and Gordon Sweeney, raised in a rough Denver neighborhood. When the two Iraq/Afghanistan vets decide to buy the Three Balls Pawnshop in...
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Aimée and David Thurlo. Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2451-1
In the Thurlos’ satisfying 17th novel featuring Navajo policewoman Ella Clah (after 2010’s Never-Ending-Snake), a remote area near a steep-sided outcrop called Hogback becomes a murder scene with the accidental discovery of a buried body with two...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author Viking Books $16.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-670-03645-5
David and Aimee Thurlo keep to their familiar setting but leave behind their usual whodunit format for The Spirit Line, an emotional tale of a 15-year-old Navajo girl who yearns to discover life beyond the reservation. Crystal Manyfeathers's ...
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Aimée and David Thurlo, Minotaur, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-36732-9
Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, N.Mex., sets out to clear her old college boyfriend, Sheriff Tom Green, of a murder charge in the Thurlos’ engaging sixth Sister Agatha mystery (after 2008’s The Prodigal Nun). The police...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . Forge $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1717-9
At the outset of the Thurlos' exciting 15th Ella Clah novel (after 2008's Coyote's Wife
), Special Investigator Ella of the Navajo Tribal Police discovers a pipe bomb in the classroom of her almost-lover, Ford Tome, a Christian...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . Forge $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1716-2
A vicious attack on Ervin Benally, the son-in-law of a wealthy and powerful businesswoman, points to deep-seated tensions on a New Mexico Navajo reservation in the Thurlos' solid 14th Ella Clah mystery (after 2007's Turquoise Girl
)....
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-312-36731-2
In the Thurlos' less than engaging fifth Sister Agatha mystery set in smalltown New Mexico (after 2007's False Witness
), Jane Sanchez, a parishioner at Our Lady of Hope Monastery, requests a time to discuss an important matter with the...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . Forge $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-765-31715-5
In the action-packed 13th adventure (after 2006's Mourning Dove
) of Special Investigator Ella Clah of the Navajo Tribal Police, an anonymous tip alerts her team to the murder of waitress Valerie Tso, whose body the killer arranged in a kneeling
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-29081-8
Have you ever wondered what life in a convent would be like? Welcome to New Mexico's Our Lady of Hope Monastery, home to a small community of cloistered nuns in this beguiling new series opener by the authors of the popular Ella Clah series (Chan
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . Forge $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0478-0
Nothing is planted deep in this disappointing entry (after 2002's Tracking Bear
) in the Thurlos' popular series starring Navajo Special Investigator Ella Clah. Here Ella's mom, Rose Destea, takes center stage. When the tribe's...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0477-3
After last year's blandly botanical Plant Them Deep
, the Thurlos make a refreshing return to an honest-to-goodness whodunit, in which Ella Clah, special investigator for the Navajo Tribal Police, undergoes such trauma that she's forced to...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-29098-6
Extern nun Sister Agatha looks into some odd doings at the Retreat, an upscale New Mexico resort that was once the Monastery of Saint John in the Pines, in her divine second outing from the prolific Thurlos (after 2002's Bad Faith
). The...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1175-7
When an apparent carjacking takes the life of a tribesman recently returned from Iraq in the Thurlos' solid 12th Ella Clah novel (after 2005's White Thunder
), the Navajo Tribal Police Special Investigator finds enough differences between...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-312-32210-6
In the Thurlos' charming but imperfect third cozy involving New Mexico's Our Lady of Hope Monastery (after 2004's Thief in Retreat
), Sister Agatha is charged with looking after Natalie, an eight-year-old whose mother lies in a coma...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-312-32212-0
The pallid fourth Sister Agatha mystery from the Thurlo husband-and-wife team (after 2006's Prey for a Miracle
) piles on New Mexico smalltown color, but lacks a challenging puzzle. Agatha is an extern—authorized to interact with the...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Joint Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87061-4
Special investigator Ella Clah of the Navajo Tribal Police gets taken for an exceptionally rough ride in this fifth novel in the series (after Enemy Way), as she confronts a murder investigation, intra-tribal cultural tensions, medical misconduct...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Joint Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87060-7
If it's tough being a cop, it's even tougher being a cop's relative, as shown in this fifth fine mystery about Navajo Tribal Police Special Investigator Ella Clah. In previous books (2000's Shooting Chant; etc.), we've seen Ella's father murdered,...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Joint Author . Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87059-1
The authors' seventh satisfying novel (after 2001's Red Mesa) about Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah finds her Native American community wracked by internal divisions as well as besieged and bedeviled by deadly outside forces. On
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, Joint Author . Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0476-6
The suspense never lets up in the Thurlos' eighth mystery to feature Navajo Special Investigator Ella Clah (after 2002's Changing Woman), which opens with the murder of a police officer whose backup call is unanswered because of the...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, Aimbee Thurlo, Author Harlequin Books $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-373-22162-2
A nightmare begins for art restorer Greg Marten when he arrives in Santa Fe for an appointment with a priest beloved by local residents and finds him brutally murdered. A stranger in town, Greg is thought by police to be the culprit. Diana Clark, a...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, With Forge $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86328-9
A fatal traffic accident and the murder of a Navajo rights activist seem unrelated, but tribal investigator Ella Clah (introduced in Blackening Song and seen since in Death Walker, 1996) knows better. She connects the murder to racial troubles at...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, With Forge $21.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-312-85450-8
The authors' background as romance novelists--David is an uncredited coauthor on many of Aimee's books--and their extensive knowledge of Native American lore are both evident in this overlong mainstream thriller. Aside from a few disconcerting...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, With Forge $22.95 (380p) ISBN 978-0-312-85652-6
Thanking Tony Hillerman for his help and inspiration, the Thurlos (Second Shadow) launch a promising mystery series set in the Southwest. FBI agent Ella Clah is called home to the Navajo Nation reservation after the mutilation murder of her father,...
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Aimee Thurlo, Author, David Thurlo, With Forge $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85651-9
The Thurlos introduced Ella Clah, former FBI agent who is now a special investigator for the Navajo tribal police at Shiprock in what is recognizably Tony Hillerman territory in Blackening Song. Like Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Clah makes use of both
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David Thurlo, Author, Aimee Thurlo, Author . Forge $23.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1385-0
In the Thurlos' fast-paced third adventure (after 2004's Blood Retribution
) to feature Leo Hawk (aka Lee Nez), a half-vampire Navajo and New Mexico cop who "died" in 1945, Leo and FBI agent girlfriend Diane Lopez team up to hunt...
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David Thurlo, Author, Aimee Thurlo, Author Forge $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0442-1
In Aimee and David Thurlo's Blood Retribution, the second mystery to feature half-vampire Navajo lawman Lee Nez (after 2002's Second Sunrise), Lee and FBI agent Diane Lopez take on a shape-shifting pack of turquoise smugglers, among other...
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David Thurlo, Author, Aimee Thurlo, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-765-31615-8
In the Thurlos' lackluster fourth Lee Nez novel (after 2005's Pale Death
), the half-vampire Navajo police officer and his girlfriend, FBI Special Agent Diane Lopez, set up undercover housekeeping across the street from East Mountain area...
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