At Ease With the Dead [Paperback]

Walter Satterthwait (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1990

When Daniel Begay hires Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft, it's an unusual missing persons case. The silver-haired, distinguished, and more than slightly mysterious Indian wants Joshua to return the lost remains of a Navajo leader, dead nearly a hundred years, to their proper burial site.

Soon Croft is hurtling his trusty Subaru across the Southwest, from Santa Fe to El Paso to remote parts of the Navajo Reservation, unearthing long-buried hostilities and reviving the mystery of an unsolved, unforgotten murder.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Croft is hired to find the remains of a Navajo leader and return them to their proper burial site. The bones disappeared over sixty years ago under bizarre circumstances, which led to murder that is still fresh in somebody's mind. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Walter Satterthwait resides in Los Angeles, loves to ride his motorcyle, and writes mysteries that have an international audience. In addition to the Joshua Croft series, he has written the historical mysteries Wilde West and Masquerade. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: St. Martins Press; 1st edition (April 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312042604
• ISBN-13: 978-0312042608
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,675,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great thriller!, December 27, 2011

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Kid Klash (Portland OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: At Ease with the Dead: A Joshua Croft Mystery (Paperback)

"At Ease With The Dead" was a great read. Excellent character development, fine sense of humor, interesting and believeable story line... what else can you ask for? I was in Albuquerque, visiting some shops on the square, and went into a bookshop looking for something to read during my flight, and stumbled upon this book. Not being familiar with the author, Walter Satterthwait, but finding the premise and location of the story intriguing, I bought the book and never looked back. A true "page turner", I'd recommend this to anyone that enjoys detective novels, and stories that take place New Mexico and the southwest in general. If you're a fan of Tony Hillerman, I think you'll love this book.