Dance hall of the dead.

Description:

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 Mexican 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, to kill again.

subjects: Mystery,  Police in fiction,  Navajo Indians in fiction,  Police,  New southwest in fiction,  Navajo Indians,  Fiction,  Indian reservation police,  Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character),  Open Library Staff Picks,  Southwestern States in fiction,  Jim Chee (Fictitious character),  Indian reservation police in fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Leaphorn, joe, lt. (fictitious character), fiction,  Arizona, fiction,  Navajo indian reservation, fiction,  Indians of north america, fiction,  New mexico, fiction,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  Fiction, westerns,  Large type books,  Chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction,  Southwestern states, fiction,  Murder,  Investigation,  Edgar Award

Places: Southwestern States,  New Southwest