Dance Hall of the Dead

Summary

Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn searches for two missing teenage boys, a case that leads him into Zuni religious ceremony and a killing tied to ancient ritual. Tony Hillerman weaves authentic detail about Navajo and Zuni cultures into a procedural set across the American Southwest, making landscape and tradition central to the mystery. This second Leaphorn novel helped establish Hillerman as a pioneer of crime fiction rooted in Native American life.