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Shooting Chant
Aimée Thurlo
Once and FBI agent, Ella Clah is now a Special Investigator with the Navajo Police. She walks a tightrope between the Navajo and white worlds, fully accepted by neither but needed by both. Ella's brother, Clifford, a hataali or medicine man, says that her investigative skills are a gift from the spirits who guard and guide the Dineh, but Ella insists it's her FBI training that has honed her instincts.
Ella's life is about to change in ways she can barely begin to imagine—she is newly pregnant, and though she knows who the father is, she will not marry him. In Navajo society, her child will be of her clan, and will be accepted by her family, no matter what—but how can she stay a police officer, exposing herself and her unborn child to terrible danger day after day?
Given her current caseload, it's hard for Ella to put off making a final decision about her career. There's a near-riot at LabKote, a factory on the Reservation that produces high-quality vessels for medical labs. The Fierce Ones, an activist group of Navajo, are insisting that more native workers be hired by the firm—including a Navajo replacement for a manager recently found dead in his car, an apparent suicide. A sniper shoots at Ella as she drives to another crime scene—the home of State Senator James Yellowhair, who has been kidnapped.
Feuding between traditionalist and modernist elements in the Navajo nation heats up with sabotage, vandalism, and murder, spurred by a rise in birth defects among the Dineh's livestock and rustling of sheep and cattle. Ella's personal concerns mount when officers investigating a break-in at the health clinic discover that the records of several pregnant women—including Ella—are missing. Then one of the pregnant women is murdered....
An Ella Clah Novel #5
Tom Doherty Associates, April 2000
352 pages ISBN: 9780312870614
Hard Cover
$23.95
Also by Aimée Thurlo:
Falcon's Run, August
2013
A Time of Change, April
2013
Secret of the Lynx, December
2012
Power of the Raven, February
2012
Winter Hawk's Legend, November
2011
Black Thunder, October
2011
Never-ending Snake, September
2011
Twilight Warrior, January
2011
Alpha Warrior, August
2010
Bad Samaritan, June
2010
The Shadow, January
2010
Earthway, October
2009
Navajo Courage, August
2009
Coyote's Wife, September
2008
Prodigal Nun, July
2008
Stargazer's Woman, May
2008
False Witness, October
2007
Restless Wind, September
2007
Council of Fire, May
2007
Turquoise Girl, April
2007
Surrogate Evil, November
2006
Prey for a Miracle, June
2006
Mourning Dove, March
2006
Pale Death, October
2005
White Thunder, April
2005
Thief in Retreat, March
2005
Bad Faith, November
2004
Blood Retribution, October
2004
Wind Spirit, April
2004
Plant Them Deep, November
2003
The Spirit Line, October
2003
Timewalker, June
2003
Tracking Bear, April
2003
Second Sunrise, November
2002
Navajo Justice, October
2002
When Lightning Strikes, September
2002
Changing Woman, March
2002
Red Mesa, April
2001
Black Raven's Pride, June
2000
Shooting Chant, April
2000
Christmas Witness, November
1999
Redhawk's Return, March
1999
Redhawk's Heart, February
1999
Enemy Way, August
1998
Expiration Date, July
1998
Her Shadow, February
1998
Bad Medicine, October
1997
Her Hero, October
1997
Her Destiny, June
1997
Cisco's Woman, June
1996
Death Walker, April
1996
Fatal Charm, August
1995
Bearing Gifts, August
1994
Spirit Warrior, September
1993
Shadow of the Wolf, February
1993
Breach of Faith, September
1992
Strangers Who Linger, April
1992
Night Wind, November
1991
Suitable for Framing, June
1990
Black Mesa, February
1990
RIght Combination, May
1988
Ariel's Desire, April
1987
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