Böcker av Rick Church

comes as a horrific shock when young Native American policeman Timothy Bear Child becomes a suspect in three Chicago murders. Not only does he face dangerous offenders on the job, but he now also faces hefty criminal charges.Bear Child retains the help of Native American ex-cop and private investigator Noel Two Horses. Along with friends, Two Horses plans to prove Bear Child's innocent, all the while suspecting the young officer has been accused due to race-based discrimination, wrong place, wrong time.While dealing with a Sinaloa drug cartel shooter and a histrionic client, Two Horses flies under the radar of the police agencies that have wrongfully labeled Bear Child a serial murderer. Legal avenues might not be enough, however, as all involved creep ever closer to an OK Corral-type conclusion.Rick Church has written a wise and witty thriller, full of breathless encounters and dark, dry humor. It's a fine read.Thomas Cobb, author of Crazy Heart

Ex-cop and Native American private investigator Noel Two Horses is hired by a well-to-do madame to help clear her decorated Navy corpsman kid-brother who has been recently discharged from the Navy and is now framed for the murder of a Phoenix, Arizona stripper.Two Horses soon discovers he needs to protect his client from his older sister who framed him for the murder. Her estranged family members lived with her dysfunction, power playing, and lying until she was a teenager, and she left home returning to her native Columbia to lead an adult-criminal lifestyle.Supported by illicit drug money and organized cartels, the sister stalks both Two Horses and her brother to silence them.

Former cop and private investigator Noel Two Horses finds himself working in a tribal casino undercover to help supplement his bookstore and teaching income when his life is turned upside down when he discovers an Indian baby in his bookstore restroom. What he soon learns is as American today as it was 250 years ago. Indian genocide and Indian child smuggling swirl around the southern borders of our country, and Noel Two Horses is siphoned into its vortex without warning. Noel has to quickly develop a modern day underground railroad to protect his new client from elements of the cartel who are determined to eliminate anyone who attempts to stop them from recovering the stolen baby.

At the urging of an old friend, former cop and private investigator Noel Two Horses attends a monthly lunch meeting of retired police officers and deputies. While reuniting with some of his former Native American coworkers and friends, he finds out that one of their families has become the victim of kidnapping and extortion on the Mexican border with the United States just hours from Noel's bookstore. Noel offers to help his old friend and his family but soon discovers that all the available evidence indicates that this may have turned into another border murder. Noel begins an impossible search-and-locate investigation. Set in the American southwest where death on the border is as common today as tornado touchdowns in the Midwest, Noel sets an urban assault into motion to battle the extortionist and the odds.