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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1999
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Ben Pecos Mystery

1 - The Pumpkin Seed Massacre (Oct-1999)
2 - Yellow Lies (Aug-2000)
3 - Thunderbird (Jan-2002)
3.5 - Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas: A Way to the Manger (Nov-2003)
4 - Fire Dancer (Apr-2018)
5 - Under A Mulberry Moon (Aug-2018)
6 - The Thaw (May-2020)
7 - Ghost Dust (Dec-2020)
8 - Paper Arrows (Oct-2021)

A Dan Mahoney Mystery

1 - Flash Flood (Dec-2002)
2 - Rollover (Jul-2014)
3 - Hair of the Dog (Jul-2015)
4 - Epiphany (Apr-2019)
5 - Widow's Walk (Apr-2022)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • MURDER IN RESERVE 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 my...



  • MISFORTUNE IN AMBER Returning to his native New Mexico, Indian Health Services psychologist Ben Pecos finds himself entangled in the murder of a trader in traditional native fetishes. The accused is Salvador Zuni, a master carver who is involv...



  • CLOSE ENCOUNTER The fiery crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos on a sinister trail leading into the world of military cover-ups, UFOs and aliens. Tribal ...



  • Dan Mahoney, insurance investigator, lands in Tatum, New Mexico where several prize cattle on the famed Double Horseshoe Ranch have mysteriously died. The claims put a lot of money at stake for Dan's company. But that just scratches the surface of...



  • A local teen is missing and Native American psychologist Ben Pecos begins to piece together some disturbing facts. The girl, a high school basketball star, harbors a dark and painful secret, one that puts her on a collision course with a ring of huma...



  • As the great balloon bearing the image of a clock swoops across the River Grande, Pauly Caton watches her husband of four days fall from the sky. Who is the naked child who scrambles from the gondola who flees when it strikes a sandbar? Why would ...



  • O TO 60 is Susan Slater s debut women s fiction novel with that all too true-to-life story of a woman dumped. Meet Shelly Sinclair, matriarch of the quintessential American family. Shelly s life is perfect one most women would envy a 35 year marriage...



  • A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico, on its ear. It’s no straight-forward, “demand all the money at gun-point and hustle out the front door” kind of robbery. It’s a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete a...



  • It sounds like some work and mostly play when United Life and Casualty sends its investigator Dan Mahoney to Florida. Five greyhounds―all heavily insured―were lost in a fire at the Daytona dog track. So simple. Five dogs dead by smoke inhalat...






  • Award-winning author Susan Slater adds a heartwarming holiday story to her romantic-mystery series. Don't miss it!A week before Christmas Charlene Toya, local teen basketball star, goes missing on the way to her Tewa pueblo home. Native American psyc...



  • From award-winning author Susan Slater, the fourth installment in her critically acclaimed New Mexico Ben Pecos mysteries, which Booklist calls “a series to watch.” Ben Pecos has the opportunity to work in Albuquerque on a research project for th...



  • Booklist calls the Ben Pecos mysteries, from award-winning author Susan Slater, “A series to watch.” Psychologist Ben Pecos takes a transfer to Florida in his job with the Indian Health Service. His first assignment in St. Augustine puts him righ...



  • “Susan Slater can flat-out write.” -- Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel It’s Christmas in St. Augustine, where Dan and Elaine Mahoney are taking an extended honeymoon. But not all is sunny in Florida when Dan’s com...



  • Booklist calls the Ben Pecos mysteries, from award-winning author Susan Slater, “A series to watch.”Ben Pecos finds himself leaving his new home and new wife Julie in Florida, as he is sent on temporary assignment with the Indian Health S...



  • Indian Health Services psychologist Ben Pecos and his eleven-year-old son are enjoying a summer vacation to Ben’s New Mexico pueblo ancestral home when Ben is called back to duty, this time on the Navajo reservation. It’s the year of the ...



  • When psychologist Ben Pecos gets the call—his 12 year old ward, Nathan Yazzi has been expelled from school—Ben sees a road trip as an opportunity to spend extended time with the troubled boy, camping and fishing and talking things through...



  • The 1918 influenza pandemic robbed Constance Warkentine of both her parents. The stringent terms in her father’s will robbed her of everything else. Unless she can find a husband and produce a son, the family property founded by her grandparent...



  • Dan and Elaine Mahoney are finally settled in St. Augustine, Florida, and Elaine has her brand new private investigator’s license, plus a job offer with a prestigious law firm. So, it’s with some excitement that she talks to her first cli...



  • An elderly Seminole man paddles his kayak to a spot in the Everglades, a place known for alligators, snakes, and deadly quicksand, a place he intends to end his life. He believes the secret he brings with him will be discovered by authorities—e...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susan Slater has published 19 books.

Susan Slater does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Snake Eyes, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Susan Slater, The Pumpkin Seed Massacre, was published in October 1999.

Yes. Susan Slater has 2 series.