Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Series, #3
HarperCollins
October 2005
Featuring: Joe Leaphorn; Jim Chee
272 pages ISBN: 0641684800 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air,
leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe
Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to
suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the
parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins
of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation
into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important
archaeological dig ... and a steel hypodermic needle. And
the unique laws and sacred religious rights of the Zuni
people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's
already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude
justice ... or, worse still, to kill again.