Death of a Healing Woman
by Allana Martin
from St. Martin's Press
MysteryLarge Print Edition* Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Novel* Winner of the Medicine Pipe Bearer Award In a remote region of the Chihuahuan desert, the Rio Grande marks the border between Texas and Mexico. There Texana Jones owns and operates a trading post, and upon making a routine delivery to Rhea Fair, she finds the healing woman dead. Texana refuses to believe that the random violence of drug smugglers was the cause of Rheas death especially since the earlier deaths of two friends had been attributed to the same vague motivation. Texana takes a closer look on her own and finds that in the desert, secrets are easily hidden, and nearly bury a powerful motive for murder.
Death of an Evangelista
by Allana Martin
from St Martins Pr
Award-winning author Allana Martin brings us another adventure of the very likable Texana Jones, owner of a trading post in Presidio County, across the Rio Grande from Mexico. An ugly and frightening episode--a dead man occupying the taxi Texana enters on her way home from a dentist appointment in Mexico--is an indication of a local attitude that has smoldered for more than a century and lately seems to be about to flame up once more. La frontera is a place whose Catholic heritage is jealously guarded and where Protestant evangelism is met with hostility and even violence--only recently two Mormon missionaries have disappeared in a remote village. Now, in Presidio, a woman named Electra has arrived and she, too, is preaching conversion.
When Texana and Father Jack, the new Catholic priest, visit La Noria, the lush ranch belonging to the long-established Spanish-American Haro family, they find a conflict is roiling in that established house. Alicia, the padrone's granddaughter, has become Electra's devoted follower. In defense of his strong opposition, the elder Haro gives the visitors the story of the conflicts, both religious and political, in his own family that hardened his antagonism toward such preachers and their preaching.
Texana is shaken and Father Jack apprehensive as they leave to deliver Electra's grocery order. Their fears are more than justified. There is hatred and murder, and Texana suddenly finds herself reviled and shunned by the people in the town who she thought were her friends--and customers. Epithets are shouted at her, insults painted on the trading post wall. Even more frightening, there are threats of worse to come before Texana, backed by her husband, Clay, her father, and their loyal friend Pete Rosales, can win back friendship and respect without having to compromise her beliefs.
Death Of A Myth Maker (Wwl Mystery)
by Allana Martin
from Worldwide Library
Death of the Last Villista: A Texana Jones Mystery (Texana Jones Mysteries)
by Allana Martin
from St. Martin's Minotaur
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 River Master: A Texana Jones Mystery
by Allana Martin
from St. Martin's Minotaur
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.
How Still We See Thee Lie
by Allana Martin
from Worldwide Library
The Christmas Bonus
Allana Martin
When a stranger hands trading post owner Texana Jones a suitcase full of money from a local drug lord, she's caught in a deadly no-man's-land between the feds and drug smugglers in this gripping south-of-the-border holiday mystery . . .
A Merry Little Christmas
Tom Mitcheltree
Everybody in town knew Adam Shipper was a saint -- even his cold-blooded murderer. As a cure for the holiday blues, English professor Paul Fischer does some sleuthing and finds secrets that could just make this Christmas his last.
Holidays Can Be Murder
Connie Shelton
The lights of Albuquerque are aglow for Christmas and Charlie Parker is delighted to have her mother-in-law for the holidays. Charlie's best friend, however, would prefer to find her own mother-in-law dead under the tree. Unfortunately, she gets her wish . . .
Too Many Santas
Elizabeth Gunn
When the department store Santa of Rutherford, Minnesota, goes missing, it's a child's happy shout that calls attention to the red-suited figure just visible within the branches of the Christmas tree. Jake Hines is called to investigate a holiday mystery with too many Santas . . .
Death Of A Saint Maker
by Allana Martin
from Worldwide Library
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