She’s an FBI Special Agent and Modoc Indian. He’s a Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator and Comanche. Together, Anna Turnipseed and Emmett Parker have proven to be “a memorable literary pair” (Publishers Weekly). Now, they’re called upon to tackle a case thousands of miles from their home-sweet-home on the range...On the New York reservation of the Oneida, the team finds the broken body of Brenda Two Kettles, a community elder, in a cornfield. From what ...

As “the new heir apparent to Tony Hillerman,”* Kirk Mitchell brings us back to Indian country with investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Emmett Parker, “a great guy to keep around.” (New York Times Book Review)Badly wounded, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator has finally arrived in Oklahoma to heal. At once a son of the Nuhmuhnuh (“the People,” ...

Die Revolution beginnt!Zweitausend Jahre, nachdem Pilatus einen gewissen Jesus von Nazareth begnadigte, beherrschen die Römer noch immer die Welt. Mit den modernen Waffen des 20. Jahrhunderts hat Imperator Germanicus alle Feinde Roms besiegt, und doch steht seine Herrschaft auf tönernen Füßen. Denn der Kaiser selbst plant den Umsturz: Er will das Römische Reich in eine Republik verwandeln. Seine Feinde sind grausam und gefährlich. Und als sie von seinen Plänen erfahren, holen sie z...

Kolumbus kam nie nach Amerika...Die Neue Welt wurde von den Römern entdeckt, Nachfahren jener antiken Macht, die vor beinahe zweitausend Jahren einen jüdischen Propheten namens Jesus begnadigte und bis heute die Welt beherrscht. Doch nun stellt sich den Erben Roms in der westlichen Hemisphäre ein ebenbürtiger Feind entgegen: Die Azteken, grausame, blutrünstige Krieger, die nicht vor Menschenopfern zurückschrecken, beginnen ihr Reich über den Kontinent auszudehnen.Rom droht ...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1988 nach Christi Geburt...Das Römische Imperium kämpft noch immer gegen die Barbaren...Mit den modernsten Waffen halten die Römer die Barbaren des Nordens in Schach. Größte Gefahr droht dem Imperium jedoch von den Zaims – einem Geheimbund, der mysteriöse Morde begeht.Der Procurator Germanicus Agricola erhält den Auftrag, diesen Geheimbund mit seinen Truppen zu vernichten. In seinem ausgeklügelten Plan hat er sich selbst die Rolle des...

FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory.This assignment takes them to upstate New York where Brenda Two Kettles, an elder of the Oneida tribe, was found dead in a cornfield, every major bone in her body shattered. She seems to have fallen from the sky, like Sky Woman of the Oneida creation myth. Whe...

In the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh comesKirk Mitchell's latest suspense thriller, which reunites Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops torn between their heritage and the law.A fire-gutted police cruiser found in a remote part of the Navajo reservation bears the bodies of a tribal patrolman and his wife. Parker and Turnipseed know a cop's murder is never simple, raising...

If there's one thing that Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker knows, it's that the dead don't always stay dead. With him he carries the ghosts of a partner killed in action, three failed marriages, and a long affair with the bottle. And now he's about to face the most dangerous case of his career—one that begins with a body that doesn't stay buried.The corpse of a woman, brutally murdered and bizarrely mutilated, is discovered on Havasupai Nation land. Parker...

After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, Emmett Parker has come home to Oklahoma on convalescent leave, badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed. At once a son of the Comanche people and a government investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he has ties to both sides—and is about to discover which side pulls harder.On the reservation, Emmett finds an intricate web of fam...

Though there are signs of foul play, BIA investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI special agent Anna Turnipseed aren't looking for a killer—the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are fourteen thousand years old. Parker and Turnipseed are sent to Central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of John Day Man, as he is dubbed, for the bones have quickly provoked a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton is distinctly Caucasian, not Na...

In the beginning of the twentieth century, women were demanding more freedom. What could bring more freedom than a chance to fly? Women went up in those early wire-and-fabric contraptions to gain independence, to make money, or to make their names as pilots. They sought to prove that women pilots could do just as well as men�and some did far better. Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation tells the story of Blanche Stuart Scott, who made $5,000 a week and broke forty-one bones; of ...

The war was won, the Depression was over, and Americans were back on the road. From all across the nation, sports car drivers converged on Watkins Glen to race through the gorges, hills, and village streets of western New York. Over the years, the course has evolved from its humble beginnings on streets lined with hay bales to the modern closed track that plays host to NASCAR today. Through vintage photographs, primarily from the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen, ...