The First Eagle

When Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee catches a Hopi man huddled over the bloodied body of a young Navajo Tribal Police officer, it looks like an open-and-shut case until Joe Leaphorn shows up. Now retired from the Navajo PD, he's been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist who vanished from the remote area the day the cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or a victim? And what are Chee and Leaphorn to make of the report that a skinwalker-a Navajo witch- was seen in the area at the time? In an ingeniously plotted tale that combines treachery, Native American lore, and the most virulent plague outbreak since the Middle Ages, The First Eagle is Hillerman at his storytelling best.