Search Results: American Indian from Murder By The Book

NY,NY: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Emmett Quanah Parker, a part-Comanche, part-white Bureau of Indian Affairs agent, and Anna Turnipseed, a part-Modoc, part-Japanese FBI special agent, in New Mexico and elsewhere, are featured in the third book in this series. Plese inquire about price for all five books in series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY, NY: HarperCollins, 2000. 1st. Ed. Fine. Paperback Original. Laura Winslow, is featured in her debut novel. Hired by an old man to track down his granddaughter, embittered Hopi peoplefinder Laura searches the rodeo circuit for the lost girl while she struggles with demons in her own past. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1994. 1st. Edition, November 1994, FINE/FINE. Angela Biwaban, an ex-embezzler Anishabe princess, in Minnesota, is featured in the third title in this series. Author is a Rhode Island resident.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Santa Fe: New Mexico: REDCRANE BOOKS, 1993. 2nd printing, reading creas else near fine.Ron Querry's debut novel, originally published in 1993 by Red Crane, is a foundational novel in contemporary Native American writing. Querry uses the alternating viewpoints of Gracie, Bernadette's younger sister, and Starr Stubbs, the wealthy New Yorker who lives just outside of Dulce, New Mexico-to detail the tragic end of Bernadette's life. The conflicting accounts create a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul.. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1993. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. An ex-GI moves to Tucson and finds himself in another war -- between the government and the Indian reservation.."A criminal lawyer in Arizona, Parrish draws on the history of his home state to provide a colorful backdrop for his absorbing second novel (after Our Choice of Gods ), a brisk, tightly plotted thriller/courtroom drama. In 1946, after his wife is killed in an accident, Jewish lawyer and wounded war veteran Joshua Rabb takes a job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and moves with his two children to Tucson, Ariz., hoping that the arid Southwestern environment will restore his body and soul. He finds a squalid town of 25,000 Mexican Catholics and 15,000 "redneck Baptists," none of whom want to mix with the nearby Papago Indians, whose reservation is separated from Tucson by a narrow irrigation ditch--the "dividing line" of the title. A 13-year-old girl's corpse was… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Avon, 2003. 1st. Ed. FINE. PBO. Laura Winslow, is featured in the fifth title in this series. Part-Hopi cyber-investigator and computer hacker Laura is reunited with her long-lost daughter, an angry young woman serving time in prison, who has agreed to assist authorities uncover an identity theft ring in exchange for leniency, an agreement that leads her and her mother to a secret burial ground and into the path of an evil killer. A LEFT COAST AND SHAMUS NOMINEE.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Paperback Original.

NY, NY: Kensington Publishing Corp., 1993. 1st. Edition, July 1993, NEAR FINE PBO. .Shows only minimal shelf wear, slight reading creases. "Trainor's ( Target for Murder ) second Angela Biwaban mystery returns the shallow and vain Native American princess to her family's Utah home, where greedy loggers have placed more than trees at risk. Angie's cousin Billy, a forest ranger and Ute tribal council candidate, is waging a legal battle to transfer federal forest acreage into tribal hands in order to save the land from clearcutting. While Billy is a friend to the land, he has many enemies--a fact that soon proves fatal. Naturally, there are many suspects in Billy's slaying, including good ol' boy millionaire Cue Broward; stuffy Mormon patriarch Truman Sager; dim-witted, sadistic lawman Ty Braddock; local bad seed Jack Sunawavi; and a host of other Utah Saints and sinners. So it's up to Angie, a self-described clothes horse who fancies herself a combination of all three of… Read More

Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Avon Books, 2005. 1st. Avon Edition, July 2005, with complete number line beginning with 1. AS NEW. PBO. Laura Winslow, the false identity of a part-Hopi cyber-investigator, on the Arizona border, is featured in the seventh title in this series. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2005. 1st edition, January 2005, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Patrol woman Charlotte Monroe has cop instincts. Scratch that. There isn't a name for the intuition she possesses, something that borders on psychic, an ability to read people's faces and body language like the morning headlines - to size up their intentions and act before they do. But none of that prepares her for the stranger who shows up on her doorstep with a chilling warning for her husband, a mysterious note scrawled in Cherokee hieroglyphics and a promise of things to come: "You're Next." The warning becomes more ominous as Charlotte and her husband, Parker, discover the complex truth about this man, including his position on the FBI Most Wanted list and his connection to their family. When Charlotte's deeply troubled teenage daughter runs away to join the charismatic outlaw, she… Read More

U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1985. 1st ed. Some light edgewear, a crease to the front fold, a very small chip to the front cover, light browning to extremities. Author's ninth novel, Jim Chee.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Two Indian woman are found murdered, with their noses cut off -- a sign of infedelity. Cedar Rapids locale. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1999. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Navaho tribal policeman Jim Chee and retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY, NY.: Kensington Pub Corp, 1995. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Angela Biwaban, an ex-embezzler Anishabe princess, in Minnesota, is featured in the fifth title in this series. Author is a Rhode Island resident.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1991. 1st. Ed. FINE. A Trade Paperback Original, soiled at bottom pages. A very sucessfull lawyer, Sylvester Yellow Call, roams among big business and cities and the childhood of being raised on an Indian Rez.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback Original.

NY,NY: Avon Books, 2001. 1st. Avon Edition, February 2001, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine. Paperback Original. Seeking to escape her past, Laura Winslow changes her name, moves to Tucson, and takes a job as a high-tech cyber-sleuth with aging private detective Miguel Zepeda, but when her boss mysteriously vanishes, Laura finds herself drawn into a twisted scheme of gangs, Internet scams, and murder. Her second title. . . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Book.

NY,NY: St Martins Pr, 1997. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE DJ shows minimal shelf wear, else fine. An Eldon Larkin mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st edition, April 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The redbird is the daughter of the Sun. And if she had been brought home safely, the people could have brought back their friends from the ghost country... The tale of the redbird explains the origin of death in Cherokee myth, and it is a story intricately woven into the rich fabric of this remarkable new Molly Bearpaw mystery. It is autumn in Oklahoma. The woods are strewn with hackberry leaves, and a chill is in the air. For Molly Bearpaw, an investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, it is a lovely time of year, while for her elderly grandmother, it is a time of foreboding. When a terrible crime is committed at the Cherokee National Museum, it fulfills the old woman's worst premonitions and plunges Molly into a struggle for the truth. At the museum, amidst looms and basket weavings, a… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Molly Bearpaw, investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, delves into the murder of a noted jurist when private passions and ancient politics collide at a weeklong celebration of Cherokee culture. Oklahoma. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Indiana: Full Moon Pub, 2002. 1st. Edition, October 2002, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Samantha (Sam) Casey, a Native American detective sergeant who can hear the dead speak, in Chasen Heights, Illinois, is featured in third title in this series. Advertising postcard laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harmony Books, 2000. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Paul Two Persons runs a resort on the Red Lake reservation in Minnesota's dense lakeland region. When a years-old plan to run a highway through the reservation re-emerges, Paul yet again shoulders the responsibility of protecting his property. Slowly, the plan gains a sinister urgency, turning up two dead bodies and a small rabblement of characters who may prove to be Paul's only saviors, or who may end up destroying him and everything he loves. Forcing an outward stoicism that belies the high stakes at hand, he pushes forward to unravel an overarching plot that extends beyond the boundaries of reservation politics. A murdered state cop, development plans mapped in indigenous code, and a missing boy who witnesses too much are all linked by a crucial piece of evidence: an Indian fetish accidentally dropped by a mysterious man who is involved in the scheme. The… Read More