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A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their coach, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back to the past to discover a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern puzzle from the best-selling writer of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock and roll with Wings. When a car bomb kills a man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Official Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the planned victim was a mediator for a multimillion-dollar development designed at the Grand Canyon. But what seems as an work of ecoterrorism turns out to be something a lot more nefarious and complicated. Piecing collectively the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a structure to disrupt the negotiations and inflame tensions between the Hopi and Dine tribes. Retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn has seen almost everything in his long career. As the tribal police's inspection unfolds, he starts to believe that the bombing may be linked to a cold circumstance he handled years ago. As he, Bernadette, and Chee carefully pull away the tiers behind the offense, they make a disturbing discovery: a careful and incredibly patient killer with a long-simmering plan of revenge. Writing with a quality and sophistication that is all her own, Anne Hillerman depicts the wonder and puzzle of Navajo Country and the rituals, common myths, and traditions of its people in a puzzle that builds on and complements the loved best-selling mysteries of her acclaimed dad, Tony Hillerman.
