Magpie Speaks: A Navajo Nation Mystery

Dreams tell old man Paul TSosi hes dying. So why is Navajo trickster, Magpie, trying to tell him a far more terrifying secret? Hungry for revenge, Maiitsoh Dine, the Navajo Wolf, is out for blood. Summoning his darkest powers, the Witch of Ganado circles tribal investigator Charlie Yazzies young son. Some may survive the witchs evil vendetta, but others will die to settle an old score. The unexpected happens when a woman from the past re-emerges to take control in this fast paced thriller critics now hail as the best yet of Chappells sensational new southwestern mystery series. Critics describe R. Allen Chappells writing as embedded and close to the ground with an intuitive knowledge of the Navajo people and their land. Magpie Speaks, number 5 in the series, cements Chappell's legacy and puts him in the forefront of modern day Navajo Mystery storytellers.