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41) The prodigal nun
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 5
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Description
When the local diocese offers to pay for renovations to Our Lady of Hope monastery in exchange for housing a novice nun from a different order, the contemplative order becomes the target of violent threats after the arrival of the boisterous Sister Jo.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
335 pages
Description
Working as a private investigator in New Mexico, former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn comes to the aid of Ornella Neppi, who, making a mess out of her uncle's bail bonds business, needs his help in bringing in an elusive criminal who jumped bail.
43) The bone fire
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Series
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The traditional annual burning of the giant Zozobra puppet in Santa Fe is disrupted by the discovery of a skull in the ashes, and Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya teams up with newspaper editor Lucy Newroe to identity the victim and killer.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
306 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Description
A boy goes missing and is found dead in an arroyo, apparently killed in an ATV accident. But the discovery he made moments before he was killed is puzzling and takes deputies back to a five year old killing and has them looking for a murderer too close to home.
46) Song of the lion
Author
Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 21
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Description
While investigating a car bomb meant for a mediator for a development planned at the Grand Canyon, tribal police officers Manuelito, Chee, and their mentor Lieutenant Leaphorn piece together clues that link the bombing to a cold case and a very patient killer with a long-range plot for revenge.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
301 pages. : map ; 23 cm.
Description
When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
311 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
With the sheriff out on medical leave following a serious injury, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called upon to run the Posadas County department and finds herself investigating a strange accident that has injured another police officer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation. Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation with the New Mexico police. Identifying the dead isn't easy--some had been buried for years--and at first the cases look to be nothing but dead ends....
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Tells the story of Kitty, a girl who becomes a waitress at a Harvey House, one of the many stops on the way from the Midwest to the West coast, detailing her escapades, adventures, and friendships.
54) Echo
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Daire Santos and her boyfriend, Dace, team up again to find the Richters, a dark family of sorcerers, before they upset the balance between good and evil, and Dace's brother Cade, who forces Daire to confront the horrifying prophecy that brought them all together and claim her true destiny as a Seeker.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
Josefina Montoya and her sisters love the comfortable traditions of life on her family's New Mexican rancho, but they are suspicious of the changes their Ti?a Dolores is bringing to the household because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother. Five short stories featuring Josefina are followed by brief accounts of what life was actually like in the southwest in the 1800s.
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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm x 26 cm.
Description
With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the help he needs.
57) Die by the gun
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After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as his crew mate, Mac sets off on a route overrun with kill-crazy rustlers and bloodthirsty Comanche. When the owner's son is kidnapped, the courageous cook...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy s final journey, master storyteller Rudolfo...
59) Hour of the bees
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
60) Hollow beasts
Author
Series
Jodi Luna novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After a long stint in academia, Jodi Luna leaves Boston for the wilds of New Mexico to start a new life as a game warden. Jodi is no stranger to the wilderness; her family has lived here for generations. Determined to protect her homeland, she nabs a poacher in her first week on the job. But when he retaliates by stalking Jodi and her teenage daughter, a cat and mouse game leads Jodi to a white supremacist group deep in the mountains. She learns that...
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