PI Joe Leaphorn of Arizona investigates the murder of an Indian policeman for which an eagle poacher has been arrested. Leaphorn thinks someone else did it. By the author of The Fallen Man.
Lt. Joe Leaphorn investigates the disappearance of two Native-American boys one of them a young Zuñi. The investigation is complicated by an archaeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi.