- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Forge; First Edition edition (21 Mar 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765311755
- ISBN-13: 978-0765311757
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.2 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,923,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Yet another great read from Aimee and David Thurso in the Hillerman Jim Chee / joe leaphorn genre. Their Ella Clah novels are fast paced with the same insight into the sociology of the Reservation and the history, tradition, and customs of the Dine. This is the 12th book in the Ella Clah series and like the rest it is well written, fast moving and set in the beautiful navajo reservation.
Ella Clah is an immensely appealling intelligent character. She was brought up on the Rez by a traditional mother and a christian father, got married, was widowed and left for the City to join the FBI She returned to investigate the death of her father in the first novel "The Blackening Song". This is fast paced and intense, a story bringing the cultural conflict between biligaana (Anglos) and traditional Navajo ways into sharp focus.
Ella Clah is an immensely appealling intelligent character. She was brought up on the Rez by a traditional mother and a christian father, got married, was widowed and left for the City to join the FBI She returned to investigate the death of her father in the first novel "The Blackening Song". This is fast paced and intense, a story bringing the cultural conflict between biligaana (Anglos) and traditional Navajo ways into sharp focus.
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IRAQ BRINGS TROUBLE TO THE REZ
15 May 2006
Format:Hardcover
This is the best of the half dozen Thurlo novels I've read. Ellen Clah, head of the Navajo Reservation Major Crimes Unit, must find out who killed Jimmy Blacksheep, a Navajo national guardsman, who was on his way home from serving in Iraq. The rental car he was driving is missing. The obvious suspects are a car-jacking ring that has been operating on the Rez for some time. Clah, however, quickly decides that Blacksheep's murder is not simply a botched car-jacking.
MOURNING DOVE is more purely a police procedural than the other Clah mysteries I've read. Navajo life and traditions form the background rather than the foreground of this story. Clah's latest family problems are woven smoothly into the non-stop police action. In addition to the tribal police, the Farmington PD, the county sheriff's office, the FBI, the ATF, the CIA, and the US Army CID are drawn into the widening investigation. One wishes those agencies worked as well together in the real world as they do in this Thurlo novel.
MOURNING DOVE is more purely a police procedural than the other Clah mysteries I've read. Navajo life and traditions form the background rather than the foreground of this story. Clah's latest family problems are woven smoothly into the non-stop police action. In addition to the tribal police, the Farmington PD, the county sheriff's office, the FBI, the ATF, the CIA, and the US Army CID are drawn into the widening investigation. One wishes those agencies worked as well together in the real world as they do in this Thurlo novel.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Navajo culture
14 May 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Well paced mystery as usual with the Thurlos. I like that they sprinkle in bits & pieces of Navajo culture into the story. The end of the mystery of the death of the soldier did not turn out as I thought it would. What happens with Ella's romance? I guess I will have to purchase the next book to find out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Mourning Dove
10 April 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is another great mystery in the Ella Clah Series. I've read all the books in the series and enjoyed every one of them. I can hardly wait to get my hands on the next installment, (Turquoise Girl). I would recommend these books to all mystery lovers!
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