Blackening Song
An Ella Clah Novel
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Publisher Description
Blackening Song is the first Ella Clah novel in award-winning authors Aimée and David Thurlo's mystery series about a Navajo FBI agent assigned to solve crimes on her reservation.
Ella Clah returns to the reservation to investigate the murder of her father, a minister. The ritual nature of the killing makes Ella's brother, a medicine man, the prime suspect.
Without cooperation from the tribe, the FBI, or the local police, Ella must plumb the depths of the struggle between traditionalist and modernist forces among the Navajo to find her father's murderer.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thanking Tony Hillerman for his help and inspiration, the Thurlos (Second Shadow) launch a promising mystery series set in the Southwest. FBI agent Ella Clah is called home to the Navajo Nation reservation after the mutilation murder of her father, a Christian preacher. Ella's brother, Clifford, a Navajo hataali, or traditional medicine man, has fled, which makes him a suspect. Initially, Ella finds herself an outsider among the tribe she abandoned when she was 18 in order to carve a career off-reservation. She pursues the killer, wading into treacherous reservation politics and the perpetual conflict between traditionalists and reformers. Along the way, she realizes, despite what she has told herself, that she hasn't forsaken her own Indian soul. Contrasting the high-tech and hyperrational methods of the FBI with the ritual world of the Navajo (native witchcraft figures prominently), the Thurlos ratchet up a lot of suspense. Throw away logic and enjoy.
