Another Murder in Navajo Country

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	• Turquoise Girl: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah) Aimee Thurlo, David Thurlo Forge Books, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Turquoise Girl

Once again the Thurlo's have given us a great mystery. This book is a continuation of their great Ella Clah series and one of the best. If you like Tony Hillerman, Margaret Coel, and Michael McGarrity, then this series is for you. I strongly suggest that you start with the first book of the series and read them straight thru.

Turquoise Girl

This was a very good - grab you from the first chapter - type of book. I read it in one day and received great joy from this story.

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More research, please

It is nice that the authors did research the Navajo traditional beliefs. However, since much of the story revolves around a Protestant church, they should have done just a little more research. I'm sure that had they done that, they would have learned that in a Protestant church, you will find an empty cross, not a crucifix, and that members of Protestant churchs do not make the sign of the cross. I would also question some of the terminology used in that Northern NM area. But I'm not quite sure I'm right. I'll have to do some of my own research into the other areas I question.

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Another hit starring Ella Clah

This is the 12th installment of the series featuring Ella Clah, a Navajo Tribal police office on the reservation near Shiprock, Az. Ella always has her hands full of a murder investigation, plus family and tribal issues to deal with.

The writing by Aimee and David Thurlo is very detailed in the descriptions of the tribal mentality and attitude vs. the White man's way of doing things. Ella is constantly caught between two cultures and two ways of taking care of business.

There are always many suspects that need to be eliminated or investigated. The fact that the FBI has a hand in each investigation only enhances the assistance given to Ella and her fellow offices. It takes everyone involved, Tribal investigators, FBI, the Forensic teams, the CSI teams to solve the murder and bring justice/harmony back to the area.

These are fast-paced novels that give an insight into another area and how things are resolved in non-traditional ways. Although to the characters in the book, their ways are Traditional.

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Another Murder in Navajo Country

Another story where Ella Clah gets into deep danger. This case, the victim of the murder (a "bathtub drowning") is the daughter of one of Ella's mother's closest friends and the mother of the babysitter for Ella's daughter. Can't get much closer than that without getting into the family itself.

Naturally, there are the protesters who want to stop the construction of a new power plant, the Fierce Ones, religious conflicts and all of the standard people and relationships that seem to be cooperating to keep Ella from solving this case before someone else gets killed.

If you like the Ella Clah series of books by the Thurlos (and I do), then read this one. It is good.
A great airplane book.

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Valerie Tso has been murdered, apparently during a break-in, and Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is determined to find the killer?and fast. Valerie is the estranged mother of Boots, who takes care of Ella?s daughter after school. Ella owes Boots a quick resolution to the case.

Unfortunately, things aren?t as simple as they seem. A Bible verse on a scrap of paper left near the body reminds Ella of a string of murders of Navajo women she worked on in her FBI days. The killer was never found. Now he seems to be killing again, targeting the children of the women he murdered ten years ago.

Ella discovers that the earlier victims?and Valerie?had been lovers of Caleb Frank, a successful Navajo businessman. Once a member of Ella?s father?s congregation, Frank had believed that sinners had to be punished.

Could Boots?born out of wedlock?be Caleb Frank?s next target? Ella is an unmarried mother?is her own daughter in danger?

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