As a child she made up her face and danced with cardboard skeletons, savored sugar carved skulls on sticks, but Tressa Tarango's first personal encounter with Mexico's Lady of the Dead is yet to come.

"An old silversmith is dead--his body dumped unceremoniously along the highway to be found by a tourist's yapping dog. Legal Services Investigator Charlie Yazzie isn't content to stand by while the FBI and Tribal look for clues; not when he sees his friends Thomas Begay and Harley Ponyboy sucked into a tightening web of evil. One thing is clear in this chilling new addition to Chappell's Navajo Nation Mystery Series--a spate of murders and an outlier...

"Stand alone book number twelve in Chappell’s Navajo Nation Mystery series tracks Charlie Yazzie, Thomas Begay, and Harley Ponyboy into unfamiliar territory. When a family member unexpectedly dies, a debilitating sense of loss overcomes our friends on the reservation. The ties that have bound them begin to unravel. What witch’s evil is at work? Is the bond forever broken? Or is there a connection to the ancient past that might bring this malevolent...

When the local trader is found murdered the only clue points directly at Lucy Tallwoman. The FBI sweeps in to discover a decades-old trail of deceit and betrayal as the darker days of Lucy's past come back to haunt her. The family decides they need help...and fast. Caught up in a chilling plot to control the burgeoning trade in Native American art Investigator Charlie Yazzie finds himself dangerously out of his league as two billionaire collectors...

Danger and intrigue shadow the nation's largest Indian reservation when forgotten players return to haunt our Navajo friends. Once again Old Man Paul T'Sosie must confront the curse that has long affected his family and friends. Who will live, and who will die, when push comes to shove among the Hataalli of the clan. And, who can say what evil lurks among the Yeenalldiooshii. Another, not-to-miss, canyon lands adventure.