Native Blood, Mark Reps
Native Blood, Mark Reps
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Native Blood

Author: Mark Reps

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/16/2018


Synopsis

The ritual killing of a young Apache girl on a reservation in rural Arizona takes the listener through many complex layers of relationships between Apache and Anglo cultures. The myth and spiritual fabric of the Apache community pulls Zeb Hanks, a small town sheriff, through a personal journey, making the murder not just a crime to solve but a cathartic passage.

The dead never leave us but they do whisper ghost stories that bring the past back to life. Jake Dablo is a drunken, washed up lawman because of his inability to solve the murder of his only granddaughter. Seven years after her death the granddaughter of his lifelong friend, Medicine Man Jimmy Song Bird, is murdered in exactly the same ritualistic fashion. The pair join forces with the current sheriff's team to solve the murders. The closer to the truth they get the more each man grapples with his own conscience. Ultimately the intersection of two cultures and four men who are community pillars opens larger questions about the collision of the old and new west. When the dead are buried and the ghosts finally die, each character is not the same. For they have lived each day of their life knowing that a murderer and his mark opens as many doors as it closes.

About Mark Reps

Mark Reps has been a writer and storyteller his whole life. Born in small-town southeastern Minnesota, he trained as a mathematician and chiropractor but never lost his love of telling or writing a good story. As an avid desert wilderness hiker Mark spends a great deal of time roaming the desert and other terrains of southeastern Arizona from December to May. A chance meeting with an old-time colorful sheriff led him to develop the Zeb Hanks character and the world that surrounds him. Mark returns often to southeastern Arizona for inspiration, information, and to maintain the general feel of the area.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin on November 01, 2024

Zeb Hanks was a deputy when Sheriff Jake Dalbo's granddaughter was murdered. Now, seven years to the day, Zeb is the new sheriff and there is another young girl dead. This time the victim is the granddaughter of Apache Medicine Man Jimmy Song Bird. Just like the previous murder, the victim had her h......more

Goodreads review by Larry on August 16, 2020

This has been amended -- notated by an '*'. Unsure if I'd like it, especially after reading Margaret Coel (Arapaho mysteries), C.J. Box (Joe Picket series), R. Allen Chappell (Navajo mysteries) and of course, Tony Hillerman. Results? I liked it (* after lying awake all night pondering my review, I de......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on September 21, 2016

Good story, and I have high hopes for the following books, but there were a few issues. Mostly formatting but there were also geographical inconsistencies. Having spent more than 20 years in the area, I may be a little sensitive about it though.......more

Goodreads review by Bonnye Reed on February 15, 2025

Kindle Unlimited In the Zep Hanks Mystery Series we are with the native American Apache Tribe in Arizona, a little town called Safford between Tucson and the border of New Mexico. Zeb is Sherriff in Grants County, which butts up to the reservation and Zeb has close lifelong ties with the folks who l......more

Goodreads review by Randy on January 24, 2024

There are old worlds and new worlds, ancient cultures and new civilizations, young men and old men. They all coincide, clash and collide in rural Arizona as a small town sheriff works at solving the murder of a young Apache girl. A ritual killing takes the reader through the many layers of relationsh......more