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81) Dead weight
Author
Series
Posadas County volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A well seasoned sixty-nine, Sheriff Bill Gastner knows his Posadas, New Mexico, territory as well as he understands the foibles of the human condition. So when a backhoe crushes a man to death, it's more instinct than fact that leaves him feeling there's more to this "accident" than meets the eye. Adding to his problems, anonymous letters charging his best deputy, Tom Pasquale, with hustling Mexican nationals for cash are being dispatched around town....
82) Wage$ of greed
Author
Publisher
New Horizons Press/Publishers, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A thriller about a fight waged by Indians living on a New Mexico Navajo Indian reservation against a huge oil company and their gas wells on the land. The company has turned off wells on the reservation which has cut off all payments to the Indians, negatively impacting their survival and quality of life. Attorney Danny Whitehorse is approached about the gas wells by the Indians asking for help and is then pursued over the Four Corners area by the...
Author
Series
(Jess Michael),Pot thief mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A dealer in traditional Native American pottery, Hubie Schuze scours New Mexico in search of ancient treasures. In all his travels across the state, there is one place that Hubie hasn't been able to access: Trinity Site at the White Sands Missile Range, Deep within the range are ruins once occupied by the Tompiro people, whose distinctive pottery is incredibly rare and valuable. When an old associate claims to have a buyer interested in spending big...
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Until now, fate has been laughing at Walt Stewart. Unable to settle upon a single meaningful direction for his life, success has eluded him. Then, one day, just as his finacee walks out of his apartment and into the arms of his roommate, the phone rings and everything changes.
87) Song of the lion
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While investigating a car bomb meant for a mediator for a development planned at the Grand Canyon, tribal police officers Manuelito, Chee, and their mentor Lieutenant Leaphorn piece together clues that link the bombing to a cold case and a very patient killer with a long-range plot for revenge.
89) The rounders
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Racy story of two new Mexican cowpunchers on a Fourth-of-July celebration and their experiences with "Old Fooler", an incorrigible bronco.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Set in New Mexico, this novel explores the complexities of mothers and daughters, the uncertainty of second chances, and the courage to stand on your own two feet"--
As a young girl, Willow watched her mother leave their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. They found a new life in New...
91) The dirty cowboy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Telling his faithful dog to make sure nobody touches his clothes but him, a cowboy jumps into a New Mexico river for a bath, not realizing just how much the scrubbing will change his scent.
Author
Series
Love on the Santa Fe volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When an accident leaves Cassandra Barton incapacitated, she spends her time compiling a book of stories about the men working on the Santa Fe Railroad. But worry grows as revolutionaries set out to destroy the railroad. As the danger intensifies, Cassie and her longtime friend Brandon must rely on their faith to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way"--
San Marcial, New Mexico. Cassandra Barton has found joy in her work as a seamstress, but...
94) The killer in me
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows's unsettling connection with a serial killer leads her on a potentially deadly manhunt.
96) The furies
Author
Publisher
[sn.]
Pub. Date
c1948.
Language
English
Description
New Mexico cattle baron, Temple Caddy Jefford, hog-rich and gut-mean, doesn't think that either of his two sons has what it takes to manage the spread after he's gone.
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Henry Drake, a crooked businessman, hires a stranger to kill Ed Ballinger, the marshall. With the lawman gone, Drake expects to have free rein in the town, but as the saying goes, if your co-conspirator is a murderer, you never know whether you might be his next victim. By the author of The Prairieton Raid.
99) Bad faith
Author
Series
Sister Agatha volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Father Anselm dies mysteriously while consecrating the host, Sister Agatha, a nun at the cloistered order of The Sisters of the Blessed Adoration in the New Mexico desert, finds herself the prime suspect in the crime.
100) Murphy's ambush
Author
Series
Murphy volume 6
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico, retired sheriff Al Murphy pins on his badge again after a rancher and his family are murdered by a band of Apaches. By the author of Murphy's Stand.
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