Yuma Public Library

A dying man is murdered. A rich man's wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where nothing good can survive . . including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished....

Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.

Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.

Navajo Tribal policeman Jim Chee joins with his mentor, now-retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, to solve a complicated case when a young officer is murdered on the same day that biologist Cathy Pollard, hot on the trail of the source of the bubonic plague, disappears.

""Engaging images accompany information about the Navajo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--

When Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is accused of murdering her cousin and fellow officer, the police believe she has turned evil. Her brother and mother must protect Ella's daughter, and the FBI agents and Navajo police she helped train are on her trail, using her own techniques to find her.

"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...