When Texana Jones stumbles upon the murder of a healing woman, she trails the killer through El Paso, Juarez, and San Antonio, until she comes back to the desert and uncovers a powerful motive for the crime.

Death of a Healing Woman: A Texana Jones Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Martin, Allana

United States

Minotaur Books

When trading post owner Texana Jones discovers the body of a local carver of wooden saints while touring a small Mexican town, he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation that includes traveling photographers, an arms dealer, and an environmentalist. BAKER &amp; TAYLOR

Death of a Saint Maker: A Texana Jones Mystery

St Martins Pr

Detained as a murder suspect after discovering a corpse in a taxi, Texana Jones must prove she is innocent of the crime, which she suspects is related to the shadowy secrets of a respected local family.

Death of an Evangelista

When trading post owner Texana Jones and her veterinarian husband Clay take refuge at the Paisano Hotel in Marfa, they again cross paths with danger. Texana is begged by a rancher to help a possible killer escape arrest. In this fourth in the borderland series, murder and its resolution play out amid the mixed Anglo and Hispanic culture of the trading post and the river. As usual the most convincing married pair in mystery are aided by a charming cast of eccentrics.

Death of a Myth Maker (Texana Jones Mysteries)

In 1961, a Hollywood movie company came to tiny Polvo, Texas, to film a movie about Pancho Villa. However, the film was dogged with trouble: a man was found murdered on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande and the case was never solved. Now, forty years later, trading post owner Texana Jones is hosting a video crew making a special celebrating the film's anniversary. Most of the townspeople are excited by this event, but some want nothing to do with the project. On the day the townspeople gather to meet the actors, the RV belonging to actor Dane Anthony catches fire and explodes. Is it an accident or arson? And who is the mysterious river watcher in the camouflage suit? While Texana's veterinarian husband Clay fights to save several abandoned horses, Texana searches in the past for a key to the present danger. She makes some startling discoveries about her own family and about the conflicting presence of the movie people forty years earlier. But, when a local child goes missing, Texana relies on a freelance reporter to help her discover who is behind the threats and whether or not the death of the Villista is connected to present day events. As the past and present converge, Texana slowly begins to uncover a motive for all the evil, but has she done it in time to prevent further tragedy?

Death of the Last Villista: A Texana Jones Mystery (Texana Jones Mysteries)

Allana Martin's sixth color-filled mystery, set in a remote spot on the Mexican-American border, opens with an unexpected and terrible blow for trading-post owner Texana Jones. Her husband, Clay, a popular veterinarian with patients on both sides of the (almost dry) Rio Grande, has been arrested for the murder of the river master, the official in charge of allocating the region's scan water supply under the terms of the binational agreement. Now Clay is in jail awaiting trial in a Mexican court. Having lived all her life on the fringe of Mexico, Texana is anything but naive about their harsh legal system - where there is no such thing as bail, habeas corpus, probation, or early release. The fate of the accused is not in the hands of a jury, but the hands of a single judge, a judge who may be fair, or who may have self-interests that will sway the verdict. And, unfortunately, the latter is more likely. Determined to find incontrovertible evidence of Clay's innocence that even the most venial judge would not dare to overlook, she delves into the river master's background - at no small risk. Whoever is behind all this is determined to hold on to the spoils of the effort. Texana must use all her senses, her ingenuity, and her courage to free her blameless husband from the coils of the Mexican judicial snare and the enemy behind it. Martin's firm hold on the unusual lives of the people who live - and try to make a living against many odds - in the small area where these stories are set pulls readers into a world they never knew. The strength and reality of Texana Jones's extraordinary common sense and human understanding convince her readers that she's their friend, one whose adventures they share.

Death of the River Master: A Texana Jones Mystery

Seeking refuge at the Paisano Hotel in Marfa, trading-post owner Texana Jones and her veterinarian husband Clay become embroiled in a dangerous scheme to help a possible killer escape arrest, while an out-of-control brush fire crosses the border from Mexico to threaten a nearby town. By the author of Death of a Healing Woman. Reprint.

Death Of A Myth Maker (Wwl Mystery)

Contemporary

Worldwide Library

When a video crew set to film an anniversary special commemorating a movie about the life of Pancho Villa disrupts the town of Polvo, Texas, and stirs up old memories about the original filming, which was marred by an unsolved murder, violence and terror ensues, forcing Texana Jones to find the truth. Reprint.

Death Of The Last Villista

Four renowned mystery writers present a collection of Yuletide stories, each teeming with murder and mayhem, that includes Allana Martin's "The Christmas Bonus," in which trading post owner Texana Jones unexpectedly finds herself immersed in a lethal war between a local drug lord and the feds when a complete stranger hands her a suitcase full of cash. Original.

How Still We See Thee Lie

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Shelton, Connie

Mitcheltree, Tom

Mystery

Death Of The River Master by Allana Martin released on Aug 25, 2004 is available now for purchase.

Death of the River Master (WWL Mystery)

WWL Mystery

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