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Violence
Some
Murder of a police officer; biological research station danger; Native American reservation setting
Language
Barely any
Mild language; Hillerman's measured Southwestern register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the intersection of Native sovereignty, federal jurisdiction, and public health; Leaphorn's retirement as a change in the series' emotional register
What this book is about
The thirteenth Leaphorn and Chee mystery: a Navajo Tribal Police officer is found shot near the body of a young woman who escaped from a biological research station. Joe Leaphorn (now retired) and Jim Chee investigate separately and inevitably converge. Hillerman's Two Navajo Mysteries series brings its characteristic attention to the Colorado Plateau landscape and Navajo culture to a case with public health implications.
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