#CHARMSTONE 1991 ARCHIVE#

The secrets and misbehaviors are so much more interesting. I like writing books in small towns, the kind of small town people run away to or hide out in. My newest book, a cozy, mystery 'Death by G-String, introduces the Coyote Canyon Ladies Ukulele Club whose first place win in a folk music competition is jeopardized when their star player is strangled to death with a ukulele G-string. Since then I've written five award winning novels. I like wri I knew I was going to be a writer when my mother took me to the library for the first time as a child. I knew I was going to be a writer when my mother took me to the library for the first time as a child. Readers will be swept along as Amanda and Durango unearth unsavory truths and come to grips with where they belong in the world.more This story of mystery, history and love carries the reader deep into the breathtaking landscape of Monument Valley and provides a glimpse of Navajo culture. Does an ancient charmstone really have the power to protect her from unseen enemies? Now he wants only two things: to teach Navajo youth the importance of preserving their heritage-a heritage he once denounced-and stop a neighboring landowner from claiming Yazzie land.ДЄmanda's days spent cataloging dusty journals, diaries and books are interlaced with threats, rumors of scandal, sullen and secretive teenagers who spend too much time in the desert, a scheming small town newspaper editor who knows everything but tells nothing, and a menacing presence watching her every move. Bitterness had chased him from the reservation, but it was the hard lessons he learned outside that sent him back.

For another, she's a daily reminder to an uneasy community of the fiery car crash in the desert and the body still out there never properly put to rest.ДЄmanda is unprepared for the culture shock of reservation life, a culture Durango is recommitted to preserving after having turned his back on his heritage in his youth. For one thing, she sticks out like a tall cool glass of lemonade in an espresso bar. To Durango Yazzie, the Center's intensely driven Navajo director, her arrival is unexpected and intrusive.

#CHARMSTONE 1991 ARCHIVE#

To Durango Yazzie, the Center's intensely driven After her archaeologist father is killed in a mysterious car crash on the Navajo Indian Reservation, lapsed socialite and museum designer Amanda Bell travels to the remote deserts of Monument Valley to fulfill his last wish-deliver and archive his Southwest literary collection, a gift to the fledgling Navajo Cultural Center. After her archaeologist father is killed in a mysterious car crash on the Navajo Indian Reservation, lapsed socialite and museum designer Amanda Bell travels to the remote deserts of Monument Valley to fulfill his last wish-deliver and archive his Southwest literary collection, a gift to the fledgling Navajo Cultural Center.

Charmstone 1991