Cover of Dance Hall of the DeadA-
FinishedMay 1, 2024
GradeA-
GenreMystery
PublisherHarper Collins, 2009
★ Review · May 1, 2024

Dance Hall of the Dead

by Tony Hillerman


I love the setting of these books. It wasn't a perfect book, but it was still fun.

Publisher Description

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! The Edgar-Award winning second novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman’s bestselling and highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series “Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller.”—New York Times Book Review 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 Mexico 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, kill again.

Where this fits · 2024 reading log
Book 19 of 2024 · the 4th Mystery read of the year.