Ace reporter John Cotton finds his best friend's corpse sprawled on the floor of the rotunda of the US Capitol. Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam and a murder.

It happened in an instant: After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan career into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office is hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation,...

Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that...

Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized photographs draw in readers as they learn about the Navajo. Traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more are covered. A map highlights the tribe's homeland, while fun facts and a timeline with photos help break up the text. Also discussed is contact with Europeans and American settlers, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today. The book closes...

"The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez--a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim...

A deadly outbreak opens old wounds and there's a medical mystery to unravel, secrets about the past to uncover and questions about the future to explore. Sheila Metcalf leaves Hideaway, Missouri for Arizona to the Navajo reservation, the land of her youth where two of her childhood friends have died from a mysterious virus.

FBI agent Ella Clah returns to her Navajo reservation to find the killer of her father, a Christian minister. The probe is complicated by her long stay in the white world. While she is convinced that she has retained her Indian soul, the locals don't think so. By the authors of Second Shadow.

"Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's -- his 'last case, ' unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just...

As the FBI ineptly pursues three men who raided a Ute tribe's gambling casino, Joe Leaphorn uncovers a pattern connecting this crime with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero-bandit, and Jim Chee finds a fatal flaw in the federal theory that makes a wounded deputy a suspect.

"A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings. When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a...