Jimmy Blacksheep, a Navajo member of the New Mexico
National Guard recently returned from Iraq, is killed in
what appears to be a carjacking gone wrong. But when
Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah receives a
mysterious package in the mail, she begins to suspect that
Jimmy’s death is part of something larger.
Ella finds she must use Navajo lore, not FBI cryptography,
to decode Jimmy’s message. Tantalizing clues link Jimmy’s
death to his military service—but what could the medic
have seen in Iraq that would make him a target for murder
back home?
Ella’s personal life seems just as complicated as her
case. Her mother, Rose Destea, marries her long-time beau,
Herman Cloud. Then the father of Ella’s daughter, Dawn,
asks for a change in custody arrangements that will reduce
Ella to a weekend mother—a much easier fit with her
workload but something that will take a terrible toll on
her heart.
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