Susan Slater
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
It sounds like some work and mostly play when United Life and Casualty sends its investigator Dan Mahoney to Florida. Five greyhounds--all heavily insured--were lost in a fire at the Daytona dog track. So simple. Five dogs dead by smoke inhalation, bagged, tagged, and cremated. Papers all in order. Ashes in specialty urns on the desk of Dixie Halifax, track and casino co-owner. In jail, a young employee charged with arson to cover a murder he's blamed...
2) Fire Dancer
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Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Susan Slater, the fourth installment in her critically acclaimed New Mexico Ben Pecos mysteries, which Booklist calls "a series to watch."
Ben Pecos has the opportunity to work in Albuquerque on a research project for the Indian Health Service, and his fiancée Julie Conlin decides to join him when she snags an invitation for the couple to stay at the lavish home of an old family friend, Connie CdeBaca, who is the head of...
3) Thunderbird
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Language
English
Description
The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a sinister and mysterious trail. Tribal police lock horns with air force personnel over jurisdiction and the right to search for the missing woman. The murder of a local park ranger and several livestock mutilations complicate the whole picture and take the...
4) Yellow Lies
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Series
Language
English
Description
The coyote howled four times. Salvador Zuni laughed, realizing he was holding his breath, then waited for another long piercing wail-hoped for another....
Salvador Zuni is a master carver of traditional Native American fetishes. He is also a cheat. He makes synthetic amber that rivals anything to be found in nature, complete down to the insects he places inside. His recipe is worth a fortune, and someone is after it.
When Ben Pecos, the new resident...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tony Hillerman called it a gripping novel. Booklist says this is a series to watch. Start listening to award-winning author Susan Slater's original series right here, from the beginning.
Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is killing the...
6) Flash flood
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st pbk ed.
Language
English
Description
Dan Mahoney, insurance investigator, lands in Tatum, New Mexico where several prize cattle on the famed Double Horseshoe Ranch have mysteriously died. The claims put a lot of money at stake for Dan' s company. But that just scratches the surface of the high jinks afoot in Tatum. And the high stakes. A surprised Dan hadn' t counted on witnessing a murder, falling in love, or becoming the pawn of federal agents. It' s the flash flood that changes everything....
Author
Series
Dan Mahoney mysteries volume Bk. 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico, on its ear. It's no straight-forward, "demand all the money at gun-point and hustle out the front door" kind of robbery. It's a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete and landed the thieves in a room of safe deposit boxes--not the vault with two million bucks for a ranch sale next door. Was this some mistake, or was the thieves' target the Tiffany-designed sapphire and diamond...
