Kirk Mitchell Books In Order

High Desert Malice

Investigating the murders of two people in the Nevada sagebrush country, U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger Dee Laguerre fears that her chief suspect is a down and out cattleman for whom she still cares.

Deep Valley Malice

When an environmental terrorist begins blowing up water lines to California and killing everyone who opposes him, no nonsense U.S. Ranger Dee Laguerre becomes a solitary opponent in the fight against the culprit.

Cry Dance

If there’s one thing Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmet 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. Brutally murdered and bizarrely mutilated, a woman’s corpse is discovered on Havasupai Nation land. Parker is paired with FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed in a hastily assembled task force of two. The two share a mixed Native American ancestry…
and little else. As they are pulled deeper into a complex case, Parker suspects they are being led like Custer into Little Bighorn into a killer’s trap, with Anna the bait and Parker himself the quarry. At the heart of it are the dead, with history the most lethal weapon of all…
. From the Paperback edition.

Spirit Sickness

From the author of Cry Dance comes a new suspense thriller in the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh. Spirit Sickness 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 burned out police cruiser, gutted by fire in a remote part of the Navajo reservation, bears witness to a horrific crime. Inside are the bodies of a tribal patrolman and his wife. Even more chilling, the bodies were left to greet death in the traditional Navajo way: the killer has smashed a window to let loose the chindis, the spirits of the dead. As BIA Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker knows, a cop’s murder is never simple, raising countless questions and suspicions. Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed must make their way through a tangle of lies and misdirection, sift through an assortment of suspects, and work around the sexual tension between them that neither can hide nor ignore. Then another murder complicates the case even more, exploding their investigation into an unimaginable realm. The latest killing makes it clear that an inhumanly cunning mind is at work, weaving personal madness with a complex mix of Navajo mythology and superstition. Both Parker, a Comanche, and Turnipseed, a Modoc, are well acquainted with the eerie shadowland between native myth and modern homicide investigation. But now they will have to tear down the barriers they have constructed to separate heritage from professional duties. They must embrace the attitudes they have long submerged under cold rationalism, and hope to touch minds with a murderer who has created his own reality and with it the need to kill and kill again. Following a serpentine trail through Navajo gangs and methamphetamine runners, Parker and Turnipseed are on the scent of a cold and ancient evil. And they must find it before a killer erupts in a final outburst of blood fury and madness.

Ancient Ones

From Kirk Mitchell comes a riveting suspense thriller in the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh, featuring Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops searching for justice between their heritage and the law. Though there are signs of foul play, Emmett Quanah Parker and Anna Turnipseed aren’t looking for a killer the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are 14,000 years old. Parker and Turnipseed have been sent to central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of the relics. But the bones quickly provoke a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton is not Native American but distinctly Caucasian, shattering long held tenets of who first inhabited this continent. Emmett, with his Comanche and white ancestry, and Anna, a reservation born Modoc with Asian blood, share a sensitivity to both parties’ concerns and a forbidden attraction that’s causing them professional and personal problems. As people connected to the case begin to lose their lives, Emmett and Anna are paralyzed by their own demons. And if they stop watching each other’s back, even for a moment, the killer may target them too. From the Paperback edition.

Sky Woman Falling

Whenever the Feds need help in the tribal territories, they send in FBI special agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche. ‘A memorable literary pair,’ Anna and Emmett have seen some strange cases, but this one may be the oddest one yet…

Brenda Two Kettles, an elder of the Oneida Tribe, has been 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. But when Anna and Emmett discover that Brenda was at the center of a bitter land dispute between Native Americans and white settlers, the team must figure out where myth ends and a deadly reality begins…

Dance of the Thunder Dogs

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 familial and tribal duties–and what could become a massive class action suit. Indian plaintiffs are suing the BIA for oil well funds they never received. Drawn into the controversy, Emmett is accused of murder by an investigator of his own blood. Now, the man who used to be the law is running from it.

Blown Away

A portrait of a city caught in the web of terror follows an out of control IRA bomber in Boston. Movie tie in.

Fredericksburg

This is a riveting account of one of the bloodiest days in the Civil War! It is a gritty, historically accurate novel of the brutal fight for a lone stone wall along Marye’s Heights, and it is the chronicle of six Irish Americans, revealing their sufferings and aspirations in both the Old World and the New World as they pass through the shock of combat and the fog of war. But beyond that, Fredericksburg is a microcosm of the Civil War, bringing to awful light the reality of war between brothers.