Synopses & Reviews
As a people, the Navajo seek to walk in beauty and find a balance between modern and traditional culture. As a mother, a daughter, and a member of the Navajo Nation, Ella Clah finds her own way to walk—but as a police officer, she seeks both justice and truth.
When Never-ending-snake begins, Ella is returning from a trip to Washington, DC, where she has been presented with a lucrative offer of employment with a private security firm. The catch? She would have to leave the Reservation. And while Ella has lived off the Rez before, it would be a life-altering experience for her daughter, Dawn.
Before Ella has a chance to even begin making up her mind, gunfire sends her and her companions diving for cover. Who is the target? War hero and alternative fuel lobbyist Adam Lonewolf, politician and tribal attorney Kevin Tolino, or Ella herself? As a Navajo Police Special Investigator, Ella has made more than one enemy.
Review
Praise for Earthway:
“Clah is always good company, on and off the reservation.”
--The New York Times Book Review
“An unusually tense mystery.”
--Kirkus Reviews
“A well-paced story built around the timely and dangerous effect international politics can have on the lives of every-day people.”
--The Denver Post
“Ella is compelling as a highly skilled officer of the law dealing with modern vs. traditionalist issues on the reservation.”
--RT Book Reviews
Synopsis
A shooting at an airfield leads Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah into a complex mystery involving gambling and alternative fuel development.
Synopsis
In this fifteenth Ella Clah mystery, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah investigates the murder of a Navajo war hero who is working on an alternative fuel project that might enrich the entire tribe, but will drive some clans off their ancestral grazing lands. She also must decide whether to take a lucrative job with an international private security firm based in Washington, DC, or continue to raise her now teenage daughter on the Navajo Reservation.
Synopsis
When Never-ending-snake begins, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is returning from Washington, DC, where she was offered a lucrative job with a private security firm. Taking the job would mean uprooting her daughter, but it might give the young teen opportunities shed never see on the Reservation.
As Ella and her companions deplane, gunfire sends them diving for cover. When the shooting stops, a Navajo war hero has been mortally wounded—but was alternative fuel lobbyist Nelson Lonewolf the intended victim? Or was the gunman aiming for powerful tribal attorney Kevin Tolino? Or for Ella herself?
Ella struggles to find the killers while helping the tribe find a way to move forward with the alternative-fuel project and protecting her family—and Kevin, her daughters father.
Never-ending-snake, a tense police procedural, is part of the Ella Clah mystery series.
About the Author
AIMÉE and DAVID THURLO have written more than fifteen Ella Clah novels in addition to numerous romantic suspense novels and other mysteries. David was raised on the Navajo Reservation and taught school there for many years. Aimée was born in Cuba. The Thurlos live in Corrales, New Mexico.