Skeleton Man (A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 17)

Retired Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn assists Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito in investigating a case involving a young man accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received a precious diamond from a stranger in a canyon, possibly one of several gems lost in a plane crash decades earlier. The resurfaced diamond has drawn dangerous individuals to Navajo lands. Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito must locate remains from the crash, which killed 172 people whose bodies were scattered across the Grand Canyon's cliffs. To gather evidence and prove Billy's innocence, the detectives must contend with a severe monsoon and a killer while investigating deeper into Hopi mythology and Skeleton Man, the guardian of the underworld in Hopi tradition.