The Blessing Way (Leaphorn and Chee #1) by Tony Hillerman is $2 on
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Classic series about Navajo Tribal Police detectives. While the author isn't Navajo, he was awarded the Special Friends of the Dineh Award for "accurate and sensitive portrayal of the strength and dignity of traditional Navajo culture"
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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned 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.
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