The Dark Wind
Author: Tony Hillerman
A corpse whose palms and soles have been “scalped” is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane’s mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed…..Read More
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