The blessing way

Brilliantas fascinating as it is original.St. Louis Post-DispatchFromNew York Timesbestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between the supernatural and murderHomicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely placea corpse with a mouth full of sandabandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch leads him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.