When several seemingly healthy people die of an ailment with the same mysterious symptoms, the local health services dirctor asks Ben Pecos to convince his fellow Native Americans to go against tradition and allow autopsies in order to find the cause of the suspicious deaths. Reprint.

Pumpkin Seed Massacre (A Ben Pecos Mystery) (Worldwide Library Mysteries)

Literature & Fiction

Slater, Susan

Contemporary

Worldwide Library

While in his native New Mexico, Health Services psychologist Ben Pecos finds himself in the middle of a murder investigtion, fraught with greed, danger, and betrayal, when master carver, Salvador Zuni, who is involved in a brilliant scam involving prehistoric artifacts, is accused of killing a trader in traditional native fetishes. Reprint.

Yellow Lies (Ben Pecos Mysteries)

While investigating the mysterious disappearance of a young Navajo woman after a Stealth fighter crashes on a New Mexico reservation, psychologist Ben Pecos and Tribal Police Officer Tommy Spottedhorse are hurled into a bizarre world of conspiracy, murder, livestock mutilations, and aliens. Reprint.

Thunderbird

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Four delightful holiday mysteries, filled with all the Christmas trimmings, includes Susan Slater's A Way to the Manger, in which Native American psychologist Ben Pecos investigates the mysterious disappearance of a local teen who is being hunted by evil, along with works by Ed Gorman, Irene Marcuse, and Michael Jahn. Original.

Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas (Wwl Mystery, 473)

Gorman, Ed

Marcuse, Irene

Jahn, Michael

Dan Mahoney, insurance investigator, lands in Tatum, New Mexico where several prize cattle on the famed Double Horseshoe Ranch have mysteriously died. The claims put a lot of money at stake for Dan's company. But that just scratches the surface of the high jinks afoot in Tatum. And the high stakes. A surprised Dan hadn't counted on witnessing a murder, falling in love, or becoming a pawn of federal agents. It's the flash flood that changes everything as Dan stumbles across secrets that implicate his employer, his sister, and what seems like half of southern New Mexico. Sucked into small town duplicity, he struggles with truth and learns that dead men can come back to haunt.

Flash Flood

UNKNO

The first Ben Pecos mystery. Captures the essence of New Mexico and shows the author's understanding of the religion and culture of a proud and ancient people.

The Pumpkin Seed Massacre (A Ben Pecos Mystery)

Intrigue Pr

Dan Mahoney, insurance investigator, lands in Tatum, New Mexico when several prize cattle on the famed Double Horseshoe Ranch have mysteriously died. The claims put a lot of money at stake for Dan's company. But that just scratches the surface of the high jinks afoot in Tatum. And the high stakes. A surprised Dan hadn't counted on witnessing a murder, falling in love, or becoming the pawn of federal agents. It's the flash flood that changes everything. Could cattleman Billy Roland Eklund have set up Eric Linden, pilot and family friend, who's caught in the roaring water? Tempted him to forfeit seven years of his life for two million dollars? And then had him killed? Or was it the lovely Elaine, Linden's wife, who had so much to gain?

ReadHowYouWant

A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico on its ear. It’s no straight-forward, demand all the money at gun-point, and run out the front door kind of robbery. It’s a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete and put the thieves in a room of safe deposit boxes—not the vault which held some two million. Safe deposit boxes? What could have made it worthwhile to bypass a cool couple million? Maybe the one hundred and ten year old sapphire and diamond necklace belonging to eighty-five year old Gertrude Kennedy was the lure. United Life and Casualty carried a policy on it for five hundred thousand and sent their investigator, Dan Mahoney to sort things out. But he didn’t quite get there when expected. Catching a ride when his Jeep overheats, Dan is the hapless passenger in a rollover that kills the driver and puts him in the hospital only to find out this was no accident. Someone wants him out of Wagon Mound at any cost. He doesn’t scare easily. He hasn’t lived his life looking over his shoulder and he’s not starting now. But when fiancée, Elaine Linden, disappears and people close to the case turn up dead, maybe he should reconsider. The note slipped under his door in the dead of night says it all—“it’s not what you think”.

Rollover: A Dan Mahoney Mystery (Dan Mahoney Mysteries)

United States

Poisoned Pen Press

A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico on its ear. It’s no straight-forward, demand all the money at gun-point, and run out the front door kind of robbery. It’s a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete and put the thieves in a room of safe deposit boxes—not the vault which held some two million. Safe deposit boxes? What could have made it worthwhile to bypass a cool couple million?Maybe the one hundred and ten year old sapphire and diamond necklace belonging to eighty-five year old Gertrude Kennedy was the lure. United Life and Casualty carried a policy on it for five hundred thousand and sent their investigator, Dan Mahoney to sort things out.But he didn’t quite get there when expected. Catching a ride when his Jeep overheats, Dan is the hapless passenger in a rollover that kills the driver and puts him in the hospital only to find out this was no accident. Someone wants him out of Wagon Mound at any cost.He doesn’t scare easily. He hasn’t lived his life looking over his shoulder and he’s not starting now. But when fiancée, Elaine Linden, disappears and people close to the case turn up dead, maybe he should reconsider. The note slipped under his door in the dead of night says it all—“it’s not what you think”.

A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico, on its ear. It’s no straightforward, “demand all the money at gun-point and hustle out the front door” kind of robbery. It’s a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete and landed the thieves in a room of safe deposit boxes―not the vault with two million bucks for a ranch sale next door. Was this some mistake, or was the thieves’ target the Tiffany-designed sapphire and diamond necklace belonging to eighty-five-year-old Gertrude Kennedy, a family heirloom from the days of the Titanic?
 The necklace is insured with United Life and Casualty for half a million. The company sends their ace investigator, Dan Mahoney, a Chicagoan still in New Mexico recuperating from events in Flash Flood, and romancing the intrepid Elaine Linden, to the scene of the crime. Delayed when his Jeep overheats, Dan catches a ride and is the hapless passenger in a rollover that kills the driver and lands Dan in Santa Fe’s hospital.
 Dan soon learns the rollover was no accident. Someone wants him kept out of Wagon Mound at any cost. Dan hasn’t lived his life looking over his shoulder and he’s not starting now. But when Elaine disappears and people close to the case, like the bank’s manager, turn up dead, he suspects there’s more going on than a robbery. The note slipped under his rented room’s door in the dead of night says it all―“it’s not what you think.” Fast-paced from first to last, Rollover combines the murder mystery with the caper for a captivating read.

Rollover (Dan Mahoney Mysteries)

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Pumpkin Seed Massacre (A Ben Pecos Mystery) (Worldwide Library Mysteries)

Yellow Lies (Ben Pecos Mysteries)

Thunderbird

Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas (Wwl Mystery, 473)

Flash Flood

The Pumpkin Seed Massacre (A Ben Pecos Mystery)

Flash Flood

Rollover: A Dan Mahoney Mystery (Dan Mahoney Mysteries)

Rollover: A Dan Mahoney Mystery (Dan Mahoney Mysteries)

Rollover (Dan Mahoney Mysteries)