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Tony Hillerman
Dance Hall of the Dead
Book #2 of the Leaphorn and Chee series
See the list of Leaphorn and Chee books in order

Dance Hall of the Dead

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 Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. 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 rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, kill again.

Author: Tony Hillerman
Published: 1973
Page Count: 368

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