The Bluejay Shaman
In this gripping debut, a Wyoming art expert and consultant for the FBI returns to her home state of Montana to appraise a trailer full of stolen art for the local police. Ancient rituals and the powerful Montana landscape are deftly integrated in this suspenseful tale.
-- Publisher’s Weekly
A delightful read: compellingly twisted… reminiscent of Tony Hillerman at his best.
—James Crumley |
Painted Truth
Wyoming painter Ray Tantro was a has-been at 30, but now, ten years later, he's getting ready for a comeback. Then Timberwolf Arts burns to the ground with Ray and his paintings inside. ... Will leave you gasping with admiration for the killer's imagination and industry. McClendon knits detective work together with domestic betrayals in a satisfyingly intricate tangle.
-- Kirkus Reviews
Writing in a lyrical, often humorous style McClendon brings the surrounding Wyoming territories to life, and her insight into the art world is intriguing. Alix Thorssen is a charming, grouchy, quirky, and even harder on herself than she is on the people around her. The plot is a treat.
— The Armchair Detective |
Nordic Nights
Set in wintry Jackson Hole, Wyo., this crisp, straightforward mystery plunges gallery owner Alix Thorssen into the local Nordic Nights festival, which features ice carving, a parade, ski races--and a startling murder. Her agreeably feisty heroine and a hair-raising finale will keep readers entertained throughout the night, Nordic or otherwise.
-- Publisher's Weekly
Savvy readers will enjoy the glimpses of Nordic ritual, the vivid descriptions of the Wyoming winter, and the pattern of fire and ice as Alix's emotions fight logic and the heated passions around her fight icy greed.
— Kirkus Reviews |
Blue Wolf
A few writers are gifted with a feel for place that transforms locale from mere background into a vital element of the story itself, as important as the human characters who inhabit it... (for instance) Tony Hillerman and James Lee Burke. To their number add Lise McClendon, who has taken the small resort town of Jackson Hole and the Wyoming wilderness that surrounds it, and made it her own. McClendon weaves a persuasive story, as haunting as the landscape it occupies and blessedly free of manufactured melodrama. In Alix, she gives us a heroine both captivating and credible.
-- The San Diego Union-Tribune
What McClendon does very well is create an interesting, complex character in ... Alix Thorssen. What elevates the novel overall is the pounding, primeval force of wolves that runs throughout the book: predatory, threatening, mystical, political, mythological. The novel gains in resonance and strength by the way these wolf images pulse beneath the surface of the writing.
— FOREWORD |
Bluejay Shaman
Available in these editions:
Walker & Company, 1994
Worldwide Library, 1996
Thalia Press, 2008
Audible
Amazon Kindle |
Painted Truth
Available in these editions:
Walker & Company, 1996
Worldwide Library, 1997
Thalia Press, 2009
Audible
Amazon Kindle 2010 |
Nordic Nights
Available in these editions:
Walker & Company, 1999
Worldwide Library, 2000
Thalia Press, 2010
Audible
Amazon Kindle 2010 |
Blue Wolf
Available in these editions:
Walker & Company, 2001
Worldwide Library, 2003
Thalia Press, 2010
Amazon Kindle 2010 |
