A Spirit Road Mystery Series

Eighteen years ago, FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he was leaving the impoverished Pine Ridge Reservation for good. Now a case forces him to return, digging up memories of his proud Sioux ancestry—and some family he'd rather forget… The body of local Native land developer Jason Red Cloud is found on the site of his new resort near Pine Ridge Village. A war club is lodged in his skull, and there are clues that suggest a ritual may have been performed at the crime scene. Agent Tanno's boss orders him to return to the reservation, his former home, and solve the murder in two weeks—or he can kiss his job goodbye. Manny arrives in Pine Ridge to find that some things haven't changed since he left. His former rival, now in charge of the tribal police, is just as bitter as ever, and he has no intention of making Manny's life easy. And the spirit of Red Cloud haunting Manny's dreams is not much help either. Now Manny is on his own in hunting down a cold-blooded killer—and one misstep could send him down the Spirit Road next…

FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park, there is a desolate area the Lakota refer to as the Stronghold. General Custer called it hell on earth. During World War II, the Army Air Corps used it as a bombing range. At the end of the war, many unexploded ordnances were swallowed up in its sweltering sands. But that's not all that's buried there… Sixty-five years after the war, the Sioux tribe has contracted an ordnance removal company to defuse any remaining ammunition in the Stronghold. When the company finds a human arm near a live bomb, Tanno and the Tribal police are called to investigate. As the body is exhumed, two more are discovered. The remains are close together, but the murders were decades apart—and the story behind them is about to blow up…

FBI agent Manny Tanno is taking some much needed R-and-R at the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But when a death on the reservation cuts his vacation short, he learns that the secrets of the past have a way of stirring up trouble in the present… As a scout for the legendary General Custer, Crow tribe member Levi Star Dancer kept a journal chronicling his exploits from the Battle of the Greasy Grass onward. Now, the missing journal has been found and the descendants of those mentioned in the account—including Levi's own—want to keep their family secrets hidden at all costs. Manny's trip to the Crow Agency Reservation turns out to be ill-timed when a reenactor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn is killed right in front of him. It turns out the victim was the one who found Levi Star Dancer's famed diary and was planning on selling it to the highest bidder. And while the dead body is hard to miss, the journal is nowhere to be found. Manny has to watch his back while searching for a murderer and the missing journal—because this slippery killer will do anything to make sure the past stays buried.

Nearly a century and a half ago, Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse was tragically killed in custody and buried. His parents whisked away his remains to a location known only to them, safe from marauding trophy seekers and thieves. His grave has never been found. Apparently, until now… Lakota FBI Agent Manny Tanno is called to the reservation once again. He uncovers a conspiracy to take over a local rancher's business, and the next thing he knows, he's investigating deaths. Murders. Somehow all connected to finding the long-gone body of the sacred Lakota leader. As Manny closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on the final burial place of Crazy Horse. The race is on, for whose destiny will it be—the killer's, or Manny's—or both—to succumb to the very soil that enshrouded the sacred leader, Crazy Horse, for so many generations?

A corpse is found lashed to a submerged cabin under the Missouri River just south of a Sioux Indian reservation… A corpse tied there perhaps seventy years ago… A corpse shot and tied there just before the river was flooded over a resort island first discovered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition… FBI Agent Manny Tanno is assigned to assist local law enforcement in the decades-old homicide. Suspects abound, including the owner of a trucking company and a long-dead Lakota Code Talker for the Army in World War Two. And dangers abound as a deputy sheriff also investigating the case is murdered. Manny's life is threatened as he's repeatedly attacked, barely escaping death himself. Will he survive to solve the cold case and the killing of the young deputy sheriff? Is there even a chance he can find the killer of the deputy? Or any chance the murderer of the floating man is still among the living? Manny must dodge bullets as he works to stay alive long enough to catch the killers.