title: Death Walker (Ella Clah Novels)
author:  Aimee Thurlo 
description: The Thurlos introduced Ella Clah, former FBI agent who is now a special investigator for the Navajo tribal police at Shiprock in what is recognizably Tony Hillerman territory in Blackening Song. Like Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Clah makes use of both her law enforcement training and her understanding of tribal traditions to investigate crime on the Navajo Reservation. When an elderly Navajo historian is murdered, Clah must separate fact from rumor and myth to find the culprit. Reservation gossip and artifacts at the crime scene point to the skinwalkers witch cult, villains of Blackening Song. Ella Clah is a tough, appealing heroine, who faces personal conflict between professional duty and pride in her heritage. But she's ill served by this loose plot, in which she and her assistant, Justine Goodluck, engage in repetitive interview scenes that slow the pace and blunt the suspense. Two more tribal Elders, specialists in ritual and the Navajo language, die before the investigators get on the right track-more than halfway through the book. Then everything quickly falls into place, and the tale ends with an anticlimactic final chase. Readers may wish that Chee or Leaphorn were around to step in when necessary and set this sidelined plot on a faster course. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: WIND SPIRIT
  
  By Aimée and David Thurlo
  ELLA CLAH NOVELS
  Blackening Song
  Death Walker
  Bad Medicine
  Enemy Way
  Shooting Chant
  Red Mesa
  Changing Woman
  Tracking Bear
  Plant Them Deep
  LEE NEZ NOVELS
  Second Sunrise
  SISTER AGATHA NOVELS
  Bad Faith
  
  WIND SPIRIT
  AN ELLA CLAH NOVEL
  AIMÉE & DAVID THURLO
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Title
  Copyright
  Dedication
  Acknowledgment
  Authors’ Note
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Chapter Fifteen
  Chapter Sixteen
  Chapter Seventeen
  Chapter Eighteen
  Chapter Nineteen
  Chapter Twenty
  Chapter Twenty One
  Chapter Twenty Two
  
  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are
  either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
  WIND SPIRIT
  Copyright © 2004 by Aimée and David Thurlo
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
  This book is printed