Highlights the life of the man who was president during the Civil War
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Booklist calls the Ben Pecos mysteries, from award-winning author Susan Slater, "A series to watch." Ben Pecos finds himself leaving his new home and new wife Julie in Florida, as he is sent on temporary assignment with the Indian Health Service to remote and frigid Moose Flats, Alaska. There, his job will be to help set up a new clinic to address the community's problems.He soon discovers that alcoholism, drugs, and domestic violence aren't the only issues in this tiny village. Almost before he has set up his office, there are three deaths under questionable circumstances. But what do a heart attack, a drug overdose, and frozen corpse out on the tundra have in common? Ben is shocked to learn it could all involve his ex-girlfriend, who has quite a few surprises in store, including a son Ben never knew about.And when Julie rearranges her work assignment to come and spend several months with Ben in Alaska, that's when the tough questions must be answered--if they survive long enough to put together all the complex clues. Praise for Susan Slater and the Ben Pecos Mystery Series: "This is a wonderful book with loveable heroes." - Library Journal, (on The Pumpkin Seed Massacre) "Susan Slater's Thunderbird is a witty, absorbing tale." --Publishers Weekly "Slater effectively combines an appealing mix of new and existing characters ... dry humor; crackling suspense; and a surprise ending." --Booklist "... a gripping novel. We mystery lovers hope it's the first of many." - Tony Hillerman "A solid, suspenseful narrative and colorful glimpses of Native American life strongly recommend this ..." - Library Journal (on Thunderbird) "... Ben Pecos--raised far from New Mexico's Tewa Pueblo--could become as lasting a fictional presence as Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee." - Chicago Tribune
Indian Health Services psychologist Ben Pecos and his eleven-year-old son are enjoying a summer vacation to Ben's New Mexico pueblo ancestral home when Ben is called back to duty, this time on the Navajo reservation. It's the year of the global pandemic and the Navajo Nation is under particular threat, especially when supplies ordered by the tribe are being stolen before they ever reach the reservation. Trucks have been hijacked and one driver killed. On their way, Ben and Zac are caught in a huge sandstorm, known to the Native people as ghost dust. Ben slows their vehicle and Zac has an almost supernatural experience. A pronghorn antelope appears beside his window, meeting his gaze and keeping pace with the pickup truck in the gritty, driving sand. Then it vanishes. As Ben works to coordinate relief efforts for the tribe and find out what has happened to their missing medical supplies, Zac meets a new friend, a boy who tells him about Skinwalkers. These humans who can take animal form and make evil things happen represent the darker side of tribal culture. Zac remembers the antelope-did it have kindly intentions, as he imagined, or was it a Skinwalker? As the days pass, the virus isn't the only danger in the Navajo community-a delivery driver is beaten, and an unexplained murder hits the family of Zac's new friend. Ben's wife Julie joins in the effort, only to have her own life threatened as well. Ben has his hands full on all sides, and the twists don't let up until the final pages of this heart-pounding thriller. Praise for Susan Slater and the Ben Pecos series: "This is a wonderful book with loveable heroes." - Library Journal, (on The Pumpkin Seed Massacre) "Susan Slater's Thunderbird is a witty, absorbing tale." -Publishers Weekly "Slater effectively combines an appealing mix of new and existing characters ... dry humor; crackling suspense; and a surprise ending." -Booklist "... a gripping novel. We mystery lovers hope it's the first of many." - Tony Hillerman "A solid, suspenseful narrative and colorful glimpses of Native American life strongly recommend this ..." - Library Journal (on Thunderbird) "... Ben Pecos-raised far from New Mexico's Tewa Pueblo-could become as lasting a fictional presence as Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee." - Chicago Tribune
The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a sinister and mysterious trail. Tribal police lock horns with air force personnel over jurisdiction and the right to search for the missing woman. The murder of a local park ranger and several livestock mutilations complicate the whole picture and take the case from strange to downright bizarre. When it appears the missing Navajo woman, Brenda Begay, may have witnessed what happened that fateful night and might still be alive, Ben and Tommy Spottedhorse race to connect the pieces of the puzzle. Because, otherworldly or not, something evil is out there in the desert, awaiting a final showdown among the ruins of the Ancient Ones. Critical acclaim for Susan Slater's Thunderbird: "Thunderbird is a witty, absorbing tale." --Publishers Weekly "A solid, suspenseful narrative and colorful glimpses of Native American life strongly recommend this ..." --Library Journal
From award-winning author Susan Slater, the fourth installment in her critically acclaimed New Mexico Ben Pecos mysteries, which Booklist calls "a series to watch." Ben Pecos has the opportunity to work in Albuquerque on a research project for the Indian Health Service, and his fianc e Julie Conlin decides to join him when she snags an invitation for the couple to stay at the lavish home of an old family friend, Connie CdeBaca, who is the head of a family of successful land developers. But Connie harbors a deep secret she has never told anyone. Ben and Julie are hardly settled when people begin dying, and they find themselves swept into the midst of another mystery. The twists and turns in this complex plot will keep readers guessing to the very end Praise for Susan Slater and the Ben Pecos series: "Solid, suspenseful narrative and colorful glimpses of Native American life ... strongly recommend." --Library Journal "A series to watch." --Booklist ..". Ben Pecos--raised far from New Mexico's Tewa Pueblo--could become as lasting a fictional presence as Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee." - Chicago Tribune ..". a gripping, interesting tale." -5 stars, online review
Booklist calls the Ben Pecos mysteries, from award-winning author Susan Slater, "A series to watch." Psychologist Ben Pecos takes a transfer to Florida in his job with the Indian Health Service. His first assignment in St. Augustine puts him right in the middle of a terrifying case where a student has brought a gun to school and threatened his teacher. Ben works with both the troubled eight-year-old and the traumatized teacher, Maureen Beltzer. When Mo is offered a new job with the botanical garden at the prestigious Whitney Labs, she jumps at the chance to get out of teaching, little knowing that cataloging and photographing rare orchids may actually involve more danger than her pint-sized adversary ever dreamed of inflicting. Praise for the Ben Pecos mystery series: "This is a wonderful book with loveable heroes." - Library Journal, (on The Pumpkin Seed Massacre) "Susan Slater's Thunderbird is a witty, absorbing tale." --Publishers Weekly "Slater effectively combines an appealing mix of new and existing characters ... dry humor; crackling suspense; and a surprise ending." --Booklist "Take a great plot idea and Susan Slater's skill with language, combine them with her understanding of the religion and culture of a proud and ancient people, and you have a gripping novel. The Pumpkin Seed Massacre is her first novel. We mystery lovers hope it's the first of many." - Tony Hillerman "A solid, suspenseful narrative and colorful glimpses of Native American life strongly recommend this ..." - Library Journal (on Thunderbird) ..". Ben Pecos--raised far from New Mexico's Tewa Pueblo--could become as lasting a fictional presence as Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee." - Chicago Tribune
"A thriller with lots of southwestern atmosphere and a puzzler of a plot that's calculated to keep a reader guessing through the last chapter." -Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author Chicago insurance investigator Dan Mahoney is sent to the prosperous Double Horseshoe Ranch in southern New Mexico to investigate the deaths of several prized--and well-insured--cattle. The stakes are high, and Dan hasn't counted on witnessing a murder or falling in love. But it's the flash flood that changes everything, sweeping away a vintage Cadillac and its occupants in a torrent of raging water. Dan stays on at the ranch to continue his investigation, but suddenly, dead people aren't really--and the list of suspects becomes completely convoluted in this mystery filled with twists and turns. Praise for Susan Slater's Flash Flood: "Dan Mahoney is an appealingly resilient character, a welcome addition to the roster of sleuths that make the Southwest a hotbed of current mystery fiction." --Publishers Weekly "Flash Flood is just what it sounds like--a fresh, surprising, adrenaline-rush whitewater ride. It's also funny. Susan Slater can flat-out write." --Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel "There'll be much, much more, with whispers of everything from alien experiments to voodoo, before Slater closes out this lively, surprising case, first of a series." - Kirkus Reviews
No one in town heard a thing on the day of the Bean Day festival, but one of the biggest bank heists in NM history happened right under their noses. The crime has never been solved. This much is true. Bestselling author Susan Slater sends her sleuth Dan Mahoney into the midst of this unsolved bank heist.
Newlywed Pauly Caton watches, horrified, as the hot air balloon, the one she would have been riding in, falls from the sky. She races to the wrecked basket to discover both the pilot and her husband Randy dead in the fiery crash. The lone survivor appears to be an unknown child, who runs from the scene, naked and fearful, and disappears from sight