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"The pacing of the novel. . . is distinctly native, something I haven't read since the departure of the old master, Tony Hillerman."

Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of
Hell Is Empty

Death Along the Spirit Road
by C. M. Wendelboe
(Berkley Prime Crime, 2011)

ISBN-10: 0425240029
ISBN-13: 978-0425240021
$14 Trade Paperback

Cover illustration by Richard Tuschman
Cover design by Rita Frangie

First in a new mystery series
for readers of Margaret Coel and
Tony Hillerman

FBI Agent Manny Tanno must solve the murder of a prominent Native American land developer—or lose his job.

His reluctant homecoming to Pine Ridge Reservation is even worse than he’d expected.

His estranged brother, the prime suspect, and his childhood rival, the tribal police chief, are not the only ones interfering: A killer is hunting him and a spirit is haunting him.

Death Where the Bad Rocks Live
by C. M. Wendelboe
(Berkley Prime Crime, 2012)

ISBN-10: (NOT YET AVAILABLE)
ISBN-13: (NOT YET AVAILABLE)
$(TBA) Trade Paperback

Cover illustration by Richard Tuschman
Cover design by (TBA)

For readers of Margaret Coel and
Tony Hillerman

When Lakota FBI Agent Manny Tanno wrapped up his last case, all he wanted to do was put an end to his reluctant homecoming and get away from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation—So why did he decide to give up his cake job as an academy instructor back in Washington, D. C., and take a permanent assignment to the Rapid City, South Dakota, field office?

It might have been his hot new girlfriend: But she’s giving him the cold shoulder. It might have been his promising new protégé: But he’s burning out before Manny’s eyes.

Manny almost finds himself going through the motions in his latest case, as the investigation uncovers one, then two, then three old skeletons in a derelict car on a defunct World War II bombing range in the Badlands. He certainly can’t count on any cooperation from his childhood rival heading the tribal police department, stonewalling him from all sides. And the local media is making him a laughing-stock.

An emerging prime suspect turns out to be a popular and respected local judge. Being the first American Indian nominated for appointment as a U. S. Supreme Court Justice, everyone figures he’s in—as long as his people can make sure some nuisance FBI agent doesn’t ferret out the skeletons in his closet.

To top it off, skeletons in Manny’s own closet threaten to end his career—if not his life. Now his estranged brother, the convict-turned-holy-man, might be Manny’s only salvation from the increasingly terrifying visions. In the most desolate corner of the nation’s most destitute reservation, Manny Tanno might just find himself offered up as the next dead body in the forsaken Badlands, where the bad rocks live. . .

"A mystery novel that grabs you by the lapels and refuses to let go."

Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author of
The Spider's Web

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