Native American Mysteries

The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation.

Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to women who look like her. Just a girl when Jimmy Sky jumped off the railway bridge and she ran for help, Quill realizes now that she’s never stopped running. As she trains for the Boston Marathon early one morning in the woods, she hears a scream. When she returns to search the area, all she finds are tire tracks and a single beaded earring.

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 his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is killing the residents of the pueblo, including his own grandmother. One of the victims, the tribal governor, had made powerful enemies, and Ben suspects his murder was premeditated—but that doesn't explain the insidious killer now stalking the innocent. Undaunted, Ben digs deep to root out a killer whose deadly agenda is spiraling out of control.

Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s own nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.

A tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to an historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal and bloody British colonization of New Zealand, a troop of colonial soldiers unjustly executed a Maori Chief.

Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands.

When Nora’s best friend, a film director, dies in a hiking accident, Nora suspects foul play. Could a controversial film project have played a part? Intent on finding out, Nora struggles to piece together the truth. What she finds is shocking. What is the connection between a secretive polygamist sect, Native American lore, one of the world’s richest men, and her own mother’s surprising past? Her race to weave together these seemingly unrelated threads leads Nora into harm’s way.

The forest is dark and deep and hides its secrets. But to Zack Tolliver, FBI, facts are facts, and myths are not. Sent to investigate a seemingly unrelated series of incidents across a wide swathe of backcountry, he meets Louis, a Tule River Indian tribal member who presents a radical theory: the crimes were all committed by a single perpetrator––a large, hairy hominid.

They survived America’s deadliest Indian war; winning a lasting peace proves even more dangerous for new mother Annabelle and Union sharpshooter Josey Angel. The couple are thriving as ranchers during Montana’s gold rush. With an end to fighting on the “Bloody Bozeman” trail, they can build a family home. But when a series of gruesome murders jeopardizes treaty negotiations, Annabelle and Josey must find and clear the name of the warrior who once held Annabelle captive: Crazy Horse. “He’s just as likely to kill me as listen to me,” Josey says of the man determined to drive off...

This white-knuckled tale is about Idaho game warden Charley Cove struggling to stop a bloody string of deer shot and left in the snow. He's stymied by a lackadaisical prosecutor and a questionable deputy - the tug of two cultures running through his veins seem to be pulling him in different directions. Cove uncovers evidence that ties the shooter to crimes against people, and unknown to the warden, his bad guy is about to come unglued and drag his bloodbath into a nightmare for a two-legged victim.

Dreams tell old man Paul T'Sosi he's dying. So why is Navajo trickster Magpie trying to tell him a far more terrifying secret? Hungry for revenge, Ma'iitsoh Dine', the Navajo Wolf, is out for blood. Summoning his darkest powers, the Witch of Ganado circles tribal investigator Charlie Yazzie's young son and close friends. Some may survive the witch's evil vendetta, but others will die to settle an old score.

A single blade of grass danced wildly on the upper edge of our wallowed-out hole. It waved in victory, and I waved back. I was a survivor also. None of this would break me. Fifteen-year-old Izzy Andrus was a survivor on a mission. In Gum Pond, Mississippi, 1831, the Andrus acreage was the assembling post for the first Choctaw Tribe to be moved west. When several of the young girls disappear, Izzy decides to follow. Being a fan of Mark Sullivan and Dorothy Johnson, Sue entwined her Native American history, with the western culture, and added a hero and storyline that will steal your heart.

On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa—daughter of Sámi reindeer herders—sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these “stolen” animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the Sámi’s livelihood, they also hold spiritual significance; attacking a reindeer is an attack on the culture itself.

Book 12 in the erotic FBI/Thriller series. WARNING: This book contains adult content, violence, language, and sexy Natives behaving badly,(m/f/m sex scenes). They’re like no one they’ve ever encountered before. Bonnie and Clyde have one mission this holiday, and it’s to cause as much pain as possible. They take their victims, steal their lives, and then torment the families--leaving remains behind. Plus, they’ve marked Elizabeth Blackhawk and her husband to die. Why? Only time will tell. As they race against the clock to find them, the holiday is getting closer and closer. They only...

A FRIEND OF THE COURT A Novella within the Time Drifters Series: Today, Tomorrow, or Yesterday? and Time Drifters Lawman Dutch Clemens, of the Time Drifters series, wrote a novel called A Friend of the Court before his time travelling adventures. He gifted publishing rights to his best friend, Frank Sharp, who published the novel and became a best selling author, with a few key changes, of course. In A Friend of the Court, join Detective James Maston, a seasoned investigator with an unbreakable marriage, and Detective Abby Thornton, his eager partner, in a spellbinding tale of friendship, ...

For Jonathon Roth and his family, a vacation in Cozumel became a nightmare. Pawns in a deadly ritual, Roth and his children barely escaped with their lives, and with the secrets of mastermind Jacob Calakmul. Calakmul’s endgame: to fulfill the Jaguar Prophecies—the foretelling of an inevitable Armageddon, one that will destroy entire nations. The key to stopping it is to retrieve an ancient codex—if Roth can decipher it.

The most elusive of the Twin Moon wolves is back, and he’s on a mission. Contrary to her mother’s opinion, no-nonsense policewoman Andrea “Andie” Hale doesn’t need a new job, a new hairdo, or a new man. She has everything she needs — a steady job, a cozy home, and hundred-mile views of the landscape she loves. Plus, a secret friend she doesn’t dare admit to — not even to herself. Wolf shifter Roy Taylor turned his back on his pack and the human world years ago, and he’s sworn never to return. Life in the wild is so much simpler. No complex relationships, no conflicts, no ...

Ballad of Oski-Ahessi: Two lovers meet and join their hearts; that is how this story starts. Ships set sail from distant ports; pursuing wealth of endless sorts. Seeking life for royal courts; but leaving death by all reports. Into a land in need of rain; one was born who would know pain. Oski-Ahessi what's in a name? Friend of fauna, friend of rain. Trees and grass spring forth again; she would die but not in vain. Love of silver and of gold; thirst for riches wealth untold. Endless youth and never old; could anyone be so bold? Should one survive yet be so cold; or for another's life be ...

The car fire didn’t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del and confounded by the prime suspect’s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune.

Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to investigate a simple robbery. But soon the trail leads back 50 years, to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon that killed a man protecting a fortune in diamonds.