David Thurlo Books in Order

An early mystery from Aimee and David Thurlo, this novel follows a case where hidden motives keep throwing a second, darker shadow over the first crime. Each answer only makes the danger more personal.

Ella Clah returns home to investigate the murder of her father, a minister, and quickly finds her own brother under suspicion. Her search for the killer opens a wider struggle between traditionalist and modernist forces on the reservation.

Ella Clah's second major case begins with the murders of revered cultural elders, a blow that shakes the reservation to its core. To stop the killer, she has to work between police procedure and sacred tradition.

Fear of Navajo witchcraft shadows Ella Clah's latest case, blurring the line between superstition and real danger. She has to follow evidence into some very old, very personal territory.

Violence on the reservation draws Ella Clah into a tense investigation where old grudges and present danger feed each other. Solving the crime means understanding how quickly neighbors can be turned into enemies.

Ella Clah walks a dangerous line between police work and sacred tradition in a case where cultural knowledge matters as much as evidence. The closer she gets to the truth, the more volatile the situation becomes.

Ella Clah becomes the prime suspect in her own cousin's murder, a nightmare that turns her private life into public suspicion. Clearing her name means finding a killer while nearly everyone watches her every move.

Former journalist Mary Naughton, now Sister Agatha, serves as the outside link for a struggling monastery in New Mexico. When a priest is poisoned during Mass, she has to solve the murder before scandal tears the place apart.

Ella Clah faces a case that forces her to reckon with change in both her work and her personal life. Tradition, family, and a dangerous investigation collide in a story rooted deeply in reservation life.

Lee Nez is a Navajo nightwalker and a state police officer carrying a deadly secret from World War II. When skinwalkers and an old vampire enemy close in, Lee and FBI agent Diane Lopez are pulled into a brutal supernatural manhunt.

Rose Destea, Ella Clah's mother, becomes the heart of this stand-alone mystery. Her traditional knowledge and careful observation prove just as important as any badge when danger comes close to home.

Plans for a uranium mine split the reservation, then opponents of the project begin turning up dead. Ella Clah has to find out who benefits from the killings before the fight over land becomes even bloodier.

Lee Nez and FBI agent Diane Lopez go after smugglers bringing jewels and silver across the border, only to find skinwalkers behind the violence. Stopping them means fighting monsters without revealing that Lee is one of a different kind.

This young adult novel blends Southwestern atmosphere, hidden history, and a mystery with real emotional stakes. The story follows a younger point of view into a truth the adults around them have failed to face.

A theft and killing tied to a retreat setting pull Sister Agatha well beyond the monastery gates. Her reporter's instincts and stubborn patience are both needed as the case turns personal and increasingly dangerous.

A new investigation pulls Ella Clah into a case shaped by fear, rumor, and competing loyalties on the reservation. What begins as one mystery keeps shifting, pushing her toward a truth someone badly wants hidden.

A string of grisly deaths convinces FBI agent Diane Lopez that a vampire may be loose in the Shiprock area. Lee Nez knows the threat is real, but stopping it could expose exactly what he is.

When an FBI agent disappears after interrupting a Navajo ritual, Ella Clah is asked to find him before time runs out. The trail leads through fraud, sacred fears, and the uneasy line between outside law and reservation life.

What looks like a carjacking gone wrong leaves a young Navajo National Guard veteran dead. Ella Clah's search for answers turns into a painful investigation shaped by war, loyalty, and the damage people bring home with them.

After Jessica Tannen is run off the road, her daughter Natalie disappears into the night carrying a strange reputation for seeing angels. Sister Agatha hides the girl at the monastery while trying to find out who is hunting her and why.

Lee Nez and Diane Lopez are pulled into a case that mixes politics, manipulation, and supernatural danger. To solve it, Lee has to protect his secrets while staying one step ahead of enemies who do not play fair.

Sister Agatha is drawn into a case where appearances mislead and key testimony may hide more than it reveals. To protect both the innocent and the monastery, she has to separate fear, faith, and fact.

A serial killer is targeting young Navajo men and women, and the pattern reaches back toward Ella Clah's own past. With her family possibly in the killer's sights, this case becomes more personal by the hour.

A plan to bring satellite phone service to the reservation turns deadly when attacks begin and Navajo witchcraft seems to hover at the edges of the case. Ella Clah has to sort politics, fear, and violence before more people die.

A novice nun's arrival at Our Lady of Hope seems like a blessing until threatening messages begin to follow her. Sister Agatha has to decide whether the danger is aimed at the newcomer, the monastery, or herself.

When Sheriff Tom Green is framed for murder, Sister Agatha refuses to believe the evidence at face value. To clear him, she has to untangle a careful setup and figure out who the real target was.

A bomb in a university classroom nearly kills one of Ella Clah's fellow officers and seems meant for Reverend Bilford Tome. The trail leads into activism, sabotage, and a bitter fight over a proposed nuclear power plant.

A Navajo war hero is gunned down just as a high-stakes alternative fuel project stirs fierce debate on the reservation. Ella Clah has to solve the murder while protecting her family and deciding whether to leave home for a new job.

A baffling death on the Navajo Nation draws Ella Clah into a case full of fear, hidden agendas, and shifting motives. The deeper she digs, the less clear it becomes whether she is hunting one killer or something more tangled.

Josephine Buck is shocked when the owner of the trading post she loves dies and leaves the business to her. As murder suspicion grows and Tom Stuart's son returns home, Jo learns just how many secrets The Outpost has been holding.

When former officer Harry Ute is found murdered in skinwalker country, Ella Clah takes the case personally. What begins as one killing opens into government theft, smuggled artifacts, and danger spreading across the reservation.

Charlie Henry and Gordon Sweeney think running an Albuquerque pawnshop will give them a quieter life. Instead, the former owner is murdered, their friend is wounded, and the new business opens onto illegal weapons, kidnapping, and deeper trouble.

A silver and turquoise necklace brought into Charlie Henry's pawnshop leads to murder and grave robbery. Charlie and his friends have to find the frightened middlewoman before the people behind the theft silence her too.

Widow Leigh Ann Vance is trying to rebuild her life at Jo Buck's trading post when her late husband's partners accuse her of helping hide embezzled money. Blind sculptor Melvin Littlewater may be her best ally as old secrets turn dangerous.