Death of a Healing Woman
by Allana Martin
from St. Martin's Press
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.
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 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 The River Master (Wwl Mystery)
by Allana Martin
from Worldwide Library
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 Last Villista (Texana Jones Mysteries)
by Allana Martin
from Worldwide Library
A Texana Jones Mystery.
Legend and Murder on La Frontera
The stark Chihuahuan Desert of the Rio Grande borderlands stands in a blunt contrast to the influx of movie stars and cameras as a film crew arrives to make a documentary for the anniversary of a movie about Pancho Villa. Trading post owner Texana Jones was a child extra in that picture made forty years earlier, and remembers the hushed whispers when an actor was found murdered.
But the crime was never solved and now, as threats and violence disrupt the set and Texana's own life, she suspects a dark link to the past. As she searches her buried memories for new understanding, she discovers secrets about her own mother's relationship to the murdered man -- secrets that should stay hidden. But when a local child goes missing, Texana must make the disturbing connection between past and present before it's too late.
Death of a Saint Maker: A Texana Jones Mystery
by Allana Martin
from St Martins Pr
For her second book, award-winning author Allana Martin returns to the territory she depicts so expertly--"la frontera", a remote border region between Texas and Mexico. During a tour of a small Mexican town, trading post owner Texana Jones finds the body of the local saint maker, a carver of wooden saints, and is soon embroiled in a murder investigation that involves traveling photographers, a passionate environmentalist, and a Mexican arms dealer .
Death of a Myth Maker (Texana Jones Mysteries)
by Allana Martin
from St. Martin's Minotaur
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