- Paperback: 382 pages
- Publisher: Forge; Reprint edition (Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765306514
- ISBN-13: 978-0765306517
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.1 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,176,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Mystery readers who like their murders solved by applied intelligence will love Ella Clah,
the Thurlos' tough, believable, and brainy [heroine]."--Tony Hillerman
""Death Walker "is suspenseful and appealing; an intriguing mystery set against--and deeply rooted in--a beautifully described Rez and the people who live there. I grew up in Flagstaff, near the reservation; I recognized the people in the Thurlos' pages at first glance."--Diana Gabaldon, "New York Times "bestselling author
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the Thurlos' tough, believable, and brainy [heroine]."--Tony Hillerman
""Death Walker "is suspenseful and appealing; an intriguing mystery set against--and deeply rooted in--a beautifully described Rez and the people who live there. I grew up in Flagstaff, near the reservation; I recognized the people in the Thurlos' pages at first glance."--Diana Gabaldon, "New York Times "bestselling author
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Solving her father's murder taught FBI agent Ella Clah a great deal about herself and her people, the Dineh, or Navajo. She isn't sure she believes everything she experienced while tracking down the Navajo witches who killed her father, but she now knows that there is more to the world than can be explained by her FBI training and forensic science. Now a special investigator with the tribal police on the Navajo Reservation, Ella is stunned when one of the Dineh's "living treasures" - people who hold and teach the cultural and religious wisdom of the tribe - is brutally murdered. Ritual signs at the murder scene seem to point to skinwalkers, or Navajo witches, but Ella thought they'd all been killed or captured. Ella has too many suspects and too few clues, even after other old wise ones are found dead. Despite help from the Navajo pathologist, Carolyn Roanhorse, a woman as much an outsider within the tribe as Ella herself, Ella makes little progress. To make matters worse, Peterson Yazzie, head of the skinwalkers, has escaped, and once again stalks the Clah family. Illusion and ritual duel with police procedures and science as Ella strives to find out who is stealing the mind and heart of the Navajo people.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
As an avid Tony Hillerman fan, I loved this book. It may even surpass many of his efforts. The story grabs you from the start and makes one want to read it through without stopping. Hopefully, we will now have a more steady flow of Navajo-Rez mysteries and lore with both Hillerman and the Thurlo's churning them out.
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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Don't start it, if you don't have time to finish it.
9 Nov 1997
Format:Mass Market Paperback
As an avid Tony Hillerman fan, I loved this book. It may even surpass many of his efforts. The story grabs you from the start and makes one want to read it through without stopping. Hopefully, we will now have a more steady flow of Navajo-Rez mysteries and lore with both Hillerman and the Thurlo's churning them out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Was hoping things would get better but they didn't
18 Dec 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is the 2nd book I have read in this series and it will be my last. I was hoping it would be better than "Blackening Song", but it wasn't. I hate it when I can figure out who the murderer is before the end of the book and that is exactly what happened here. Half way through I knew who done it. Very sad when the authors can't be more creative than that.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
VERY GOOD BOOK
29 April 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I am a new reader to this genre. I chose this book because I was looking for a "thriller" with a female heroine. While I did NOT find this book a "thriller," in terms of not being able to put it down, the story did keep moving right along, and I did find it to be a very interesting mystery. While I would recommend this book to readers who are interested in Indian lore and the southwest, I would equally recommend it to readers who aren't particularly interested in this setting, as well. Overall, a very enjoyable book.
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