The First Eagle

When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi eagle-poacher huddled over the bloody body of a young Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case - until Joe Leaphorn shows up to blow Chee's case wide open. Leaphorn, now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, has been hired by Cathy Pollard, a hotheaded biologist who disappeared on the day of the murder. Is she a suspect? a victim? and what about the report that a skinwalker - a Navajo witch - was seen in the same area at the same time? To answer these questions, Leaphorn and Chee must immerse themselves in the enigmatic web of scientists hunting the key to the most virulent form of bubonic plague since the Middle Ages.