Ben Pecos Mysteries

A week before Christmas Charlene Toya, local teen basketball star, goes missing on the way to her Tewa pueblo home. Native American psychologist Ben Pecos offers to help the family and begins to piece together some disturbing facts—Charlene’s dark and painful secret has likely put her on a collision course with some very nasty bad guys.

Ben Pecos has the opportunity to work in Albuquerque on a research project for the Indian Health Service. Ben and Julie are hardly settled when people begin dying, and they find themselves swept into the midst of another mystery. The twists and turns in this complex plot will keep readers guessing to the very end!

Ben Pecos is called back to NM, this time on the Navajo reservation. It’s the year of the global pandemic and the Navajo Nation is under particular threat when critical supplies are being stolen before they reach the reservation. Is it someone within the tribe or are the darker forces of the Skinwalkers at work and can Ben unearth the answers when hundreds of lives are at stake?

Ben Pecos, on a road trip with his ward Nathan Yazzi, drives right into trouble in the small town of Spearfish, South Dakota, where the local sheriff is investigating the mysterious death of a Lakota Sun Dancer. Things are not looking good when the sheriff directs his attention toward Ben. And when it turns out the dead man was neither Lakota nor a Sun Dancer, the mystery deepens.

Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is killing the residents of the pueblo, including his own grandmother. Newly edited first e-book edition.

Ben Pecos finds himself on assignment in Moose Flats, Alaska. His job is to set up a new clinic to address community problems. He soon discovers that alcoholism, drugs, and domestic violence aren’t the only issues in this tiny village. In the midst of three murders, it becomes complicated. But not as much as the surprise his ex-girlfriend has in store for him.

The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a sinister and mysterious trail. Tribal police lock horns with air force personnel over jurisdiction and the right to search for the missing woman.

Ben Pecos takes a job transfer to Florida, which puts him right in the middle of a terrifying case where a student threatens his teacher with a gun. Ben works with the traumatized teacher, Maureen Beltzer. When Mo is offered a new job at the prestigious Whitney Labs, she jumps at the chance little knowing that photographing rare orchids could bring her more danger than her pint-sized adversary.

Salvador Zuni is a master carver of traditional Native American fetishes. He is also a cheat. He makes synthetic amber that rivals anything to be found in nature, complete down to the insects he places inside. His recipe is worth a fortune, and someone is after it. Ben Pecos arrives and immediately finds himself caught up in a murder investigation. Newly edited first e-book edition.