Native Detectives

Eight burglaries. Three terrified security guards. And something watching from the hills. When private investigator Jim Knighthorse is hired to look into a string of mysterious break-ins at an upscale Southern California neighborhood, the job sounds simple enough: patrol the streets, keep an eye on the houses, and figure out why every security guard before him has quit in fear. There’s just one problem. Something is out there. Residents whisper about a tall, shadowy figure watching from the hills. Strange things happen after dark. Dogs bark for no apparent reason. And the deeper Jim digs ...

A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pré Montana, “the last best place” of the disappearing American West, is the setting of Peter Bowen’s splendid first mystery novel in a series featuring Gabriel Du Pré. A cattle-brand inspector and occasional sheriff’s deputy, Du Pré moves easily...

When the father of a local sports legend disappears the Polish Dragon P. I. and his partner Suzie are hired to find him. What they discover is the father’s true identity on his birth certificate and they also uncover a heinous crime that was perpetrated against the Native American Community.

The residents of Alaska's largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, eighty-seven-year-old Old Sam Dementieff…Even private investigator Kate Shugak. Sam, a lifelong resident, dubbed the "father" of all of the Park rats—even though he had no children of his...

The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.” In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a...

New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time. Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in...

The author of the Walter Award–winning Man Made Monsters and the Caldecott Medal–winning Chooch Helped delivers a thriller that reads like Holes for a new generation: a murder mystery interwoven with Cherokee history and culture. Diane and her family have moved onto their grandfather's ranch...

On the dusty, sun-baked lands of the Navajo Nation reservation in Arizona, a veil of mystery and suspicion hung thick in the air. A month prior, a daring payroll heist had taken place, leaving the tribal coffers reeling from the loss. In a brazen act, the perpetrators had even made off with a helicopter, which seemed to vanish into thin air along with the stolen money. The Navajo Nation police force, woefully understaffed, scrambled to investigate this audacious crime. At the heart of their efforts were three officers - Joe Nez, Jim Cly, and Ajei Johnson. Jim, however, was no ordinary ...

Oklahoma, 1933. A ranch stands warm but empty, its family gone and a fresh brand burned over the old. For tribal deputies Dolson O’Banyon and Maria White Elk O’Banyon, the disappearance opens a trail from stolen cattle and mineral rights to forged marriages, altered surveys, railroad freight, Kansas City stockyards, and a Chicago bank that keeps paying after the warnings arrive. Their enemies do not need to own the land if they can erase the people, rewrite the records, and move the wealth before anyone asks the right question. But Dolson and Maria are not alone. Widows, clerks, saloon ...

When Howard Moon Deer's girlfriend Aria storms from his cabin in the middle of the night, he just considers it another conflict in their tempestuous relationship. But when he finds her Jeep abandoned down the road with no sign of her nearby, his instincts lead him on an investigation that uncovers the dark underbelly of a trendy southwestern town.

Shortly after private eye Howard Moon Deer decides to settle down with his latest lady love, he accepts a new case that takes him away from the home front and introduces him to the dangerous passions that drive San Geronimo's thriving art scene. Howard and ex-police commander Jack Wilder have been hired to investigate Sherman Stone, a man notorious for his torrid liaisons and low-life friends. Rumor has it that he's planning to have his wealthy wife killed. But before Howard can separate fact from fiction, a local hobo is murdered, and then Sherman himself meets an untimely end. 

New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest, Bad Blood, finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder In Alaska, one hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found...

Grace Partridge returns to Tucson with laundered loot from the bank robbery. Trinity's on the job again. Cool, funny, sympathetic, and gritty. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Richard Stark will enjoy the pitch-perfect dialogue in the Trinity novels. Seventh in the Frank Trinity Crime Novel series.

A child vanishes, and the silence that follows feels deliberate. In Red Willow County, former lawman and private investigator Cole Maddox knows the land the way some men know scripture. He knows its back roads, its forgotten places, and the way winter can erase more than tracks. He also knows what it is to live with a question that never loosens its grip. When a new case pulls him toward a burned-out site called Juniper Ridge, the answers come slowly, and not without cost. People hesitate. Records resist. The past begins to surface in ways that feel uncomfortably personal, as if the land ...

THE DREAMCATCHER A Moon Shadows Mystery The serial killer is dead. The case is closed. Everyone can finally sleep. Everyone…except investigative reporter Tazia Drake. When the man accused of murdering six women is found dead in an apparent suicide, the town breathes a collective sigh of relief. The evidence is overwhelming. Justice appears to have been served. But Tazia's dreams tell a different story. Haunted by chilling visions, guided by an ancient dreamcatcher crafted by her Lakota grandmother, and pursued by whispers from women who refuse to rest, Tazia begins to uncover impossible ...

In the snowy Aerie Valley of Aspen, Colorado, asking too many questions can result in abduction and death. Greed and vengeance trigger a chain of events fraught with monstrous corruption and violent struggles in the snowbound communities where Indigenous and Non-Native people share a landscape of natural wonder and exorbitant riches. In a race against a perilous deadline, Kayne Sorenson and Nick Sechi must uncover a murder-for-hire scandal that plagues this playground of winter activities and a land sacred to an ancient and noble people. When blood revenge demands justice, who will win and ...

I just found out I’m mated to my wolf shifter boyfriend, Alex... While that might not sound so bad... we can now read each other’s thoughts. And maybe that doesn’t sound so bad either, except for the fact that I’m a very private person and the only person I want inside my head is me. And, ahem…I also can’t seem to keep my eyes or mind off a certain bear shifter named Lucas, who just accosted Alex and me in the woods. These confusing feelings are the last thing I want Alex to know anything about... Even though Lucas is a jerk, something about him seems to appeal to my inner ...

“He’s is gonna cut me, he bought me,” the terrified young woman whimpers as she hides in Maggie’s SUV, stopped at a remote truck stop on the Montana Interstate. Detective Maggie Monroe is taking leave to see her sons in Montana when she is pulled into the vicious and deadly scourge of human trafficking of Native American women. Now widowed, Maggie only wants to visit her sons when she encounters May Skyeyes, a victim of age-old slave trade, which is now enhanced by the Internet and blurred jurisdictional lines. She discovers greed, corruption, and prejudice in her attempt to return ...

No one escapes In the toxic ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma, where blood-red creeks and crumbling mine shafts whisper of a poisoned past, rumors swirl of Tsisdetsi’s Shadow—a spectral creature stalking the shadows of the Tar Creek Superfund site. When reality TV’s Cryptid Hunter star Jake Huntington sets out to capture the beast on film, he enlists his voodoo priestess girlfriend, Mama Mulate, and gritty Oklahoma P.I. Buck McDivit to lead the charge. Guided by advice from locals, residents of an off-the-grid commune, and the cryptic wisdom of Quapaw medicine woman Nadie, the team ...

A riderless paint horse carries blood, a hidden message, and the first warning that respectable men have turned Oklahoma law into a killing machine. In 1933, investigator Dolson O’Banyon and his wife, Maria White Elk O’Banyon, follow the horse’s trail into Red Grass—a town ruled by cattle king Cyrus Bell, where death certificates are typed before victims die and stolen land disappears behind guardianships, bank ledgers, and bought badges. From bluestem prairie and flooded rivers to oil fields, saloons, funeral trains, and a dawn roundup on horseback, Dolson and Maria must connect ...