This Hardcover Book item from Forge Books was reviewed on 25-Oct-2008.
Search ISBN:0765304767 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. Tracking Bear: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah) Reference Book. Classifications : General AAS United States World Literature Literature & Fiction Subjects Books General Mystery Mystery & Thrillers Subjects Books General AAS Mystery Mystery & Thrillers Subjects Books General Mystery . Click the following link to view the cover of Tracking Bear: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah). Related topics: General AAS. United States. World Literature. Subjects. Books. General. Mystery. Mystery & Thrillers. Subjects. Books. requestid: 5637e607-1db7-44fa-afe9-34e6cde6fcd7
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1) Hardcover Book Tracking Bear: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah) by Forge Books. Wonderful, well told story. Am fascinated by human records before the printing press and internet.¤ 2) Hardcover Book Tracking Bear: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah) by Forge Books. I bought this because several reviewers had compared this series of books to Hillerman and/or Cole. This is not even in the same league! The dialog is so unnatural it is almost laughable at times. I hate to see other similar books come to and end but I thought this one would never end! It was a struggle to stick with it. I probably should not judge their others by this one but it will be difficult to force myself to try another one!¤ 3) Hardcover Book Tracking Bear: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah) by Forge Books. Money is scarce on the Navaho reservation and the lack of funds in the police department means less officers and increasingly faulty and out of date equipment. Officer Frankin calls in a possible burglary in progress and requests help but the broken radio stopped working before he can give a location. By the time Ella Clah, the officer in charge of the special investigations unit, finds him, he is dead with a bullet in his brain. It is clear that money is needed to upgrade the equipment and hire more officers. NEED (Navaho Electrical Energy Development) thinks they have the solution to the problem. They want to build a small clean nuclear power plant on the reservation believing it is a step in making the tribe self-sustaining. There is a large segment of the Navaho population that doesn´t want anything to do with the project and those who are adamantly opposed to the project wind up dead or shot at. It looks like the NEED forces are turning militant but Ella suspects a cold-blooded killer is making it look that way while pursuing a personal agenda. TRACKING BEAR is a great police procedural that gives readers an insightful look into the culture of the Navaho living on the reservations today. The novel displays the schisms in the tribe between the traditionalists and the modernists as well as the new traditionalists. The who-done-it is complex, compelling and exciting with a plethora of suspects from a grieving father to a Navaho activist. Aimee & David Thurlo have written another fascinating installment in this popular mystery series. Harriet Klausner¤ 4) Hardcover Book Tracking Bear: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah) by Forge Books. A group of businessmen is working to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation. The NEED project will provide cheap power to the Navajo nation, employ many who are out of work, and earn income for the tribe by selling surplus power to Arizona, New Mexico, and other western states. Investigating the murder of a Navajo cop during a break-in and robbery, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah learns that the dead man´s father, a retired physicist, is strongly opposed to uranium mining and nuclear plants.
Ella´s mother, Rose, opposes the plans as well, taking as her cause the health of the workers and the land. Kevin Tolino, the father of Ella´s daughter, hires a bodyguard after receiving threats because of his public support of the project. A Navajo community college teacher is assaulted, and his office and home ransacked-apparently by the same person who murdered the Navajo police officer.
A tribal official who opposes NEED is murdered. Clues seem to lead to a major supporter of the nuclear project, but the man insists he´s being framed. Other area murders are also linked to NEED supporters-but why would a group of wealthy businessmen kill their opponents when they could just outspend them? There has to be more going on than political wrangling, but Ella is fumbling in the dark, with uncooperative witnesses and few clues.
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