Dinah Miller

Dinah Miller, the author of seven John Treehorn Mystery novels and three short reads for charity, is an award-winning screenwriter who grew up the Adirondacks of New York. She left the woods and graduated from the University of Arizona where she embarked on a lifetime of story-gathering during her time as a rehabilitation social worker working in the areas of substance abuse, in-patient psychiatric services, suicide prevention, and legal advocacy for the mentally ill.

Miller notes, “My fiction writing focuses on FBI Special Agent John Treehorn and his thirst for justice in a world where he believes a victim should never be forgotten. His job takes him to crimes that have connections to Native American Reservations. Born half Navajo and half white, he is a man of two worlds.”

The author’s current and future novels are listed here:

SHADOW DANCER (Book 1) A victim never forgets. A dead man’s clue sends FBI Special Agent John Treehorn to the Land of his People, the Navajo Indian Reservation, to hunt an elusive murderer named ‘Shadow Dancer’, the same Indian myth who once brought this decorated law enforcement officer to his knees.

STOLEN SISTERS (Book 2) Death wears a red dress. FBI Special Agent John Treehorn hunts for a serial killer in an oil field boomtown where several indigenous women have gone missing and murdered.

BAD PENNY (Book 3 Short Read for Charity) FBI Special Agent arrives at a scene of a murder where there are one gun and two suspects who refuse to answer questions for the investigation. 100% of the royalties are donated to charity.

INDIAN POSSE (Book 4) Justice, she'll never be denied. FBI Special Agent John Treehorn hunts a killer on the Navajo Indian Reservation who murdered two members of Indian Posse, a ruthless gang that hunts criminals who have failed to pay their debts to society.

DEVIL'S DOORBELL (Book 5) The priest kept a diary of confessions. FBI Special Agent John Treehorn hunts for a murderer who killed a priest and stole his personal journal of secrets. Now the Church fights to keep the diary's contents from being exposed.

RAILROAD CROSSING (Book 6 Short Read for Charity) FBI Special Agent John Treehorn investigates a murder of a psychiatrist on the Navajo Indian Reservation who treated military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders. 100% of the royalties are donated to charities that combat veterans suicide.

THE HANGMAN (Book 7) We convicted an innocent man. Twelve jurors stand between FBI Special Agent John Treehorn and a killer who didn't take kindly to our jury tampering.

THE STAGECOACH (Book 8) FBI Special Agent John Treehorn hunts for a killer who murdered a Pinkerton Detective in Albuquerque and his Wells Fargo client on the Navajo Indian Reservation as they carried a briefcase of unsecured bank bonds and a little black book.

TATTOO YOU (Book 9 Short Read for Charity) FBI Special Agent John Treehorn and a hired gun race to hunt down a counterfeiter on the Navajo Indian Reservation. One seeks to put the criminal behind bars while the other plans to bury him six feet under.

PEYOTE COYOTE (Book 10) FBI Special Agents John Treehorn and Benjamin Latimer are sent to the Tohono O’odham Nation on the southern Arizona border when a teenager volunteer for the US Border Patrol goes missing.

BLACK HAT (Book 11) When the former residents of a condemned condominium complex scatter, they never expect to be drawn back into the morass of their past crimes. They thought the truth would be buried in the rubble. But they were wrong.

GRAVE DIGGER (Book 12 Short Read for Charity - December 2023) FBI Special Agents John Treehorn and Benjamin Latimer hunt for answers when a flooded section of a cemetery unearths the skeletal remains of an unmarked grave of a murdered child. 100% of GRAVE DIGGER royalties will be donated to the DNA Doe Project.

LADY JUSTICE (Book 13 - July 2024) FBI Special Agent John Treehorn and Benjamin Latimer hunt for the killer who made a double murder crime scene appear to be a murder-suicide.

She resides in the Adirondacks where she writes the Treehorn Mysteries. Her son's in the Navy (Hooyah!) and a water view is on the horizon.

The writer maintains a fan page: www.facebook.com/SpecialAgentJohnTreehorn/