West Routt Library District

Reservation "Bad Boy" Thomas Begay is found dead-drunk under the La Plata Bridge ... not unusual for Thomas Begay. What is unusual, however, is the beautiful BIA investigator Patsy Greyhorse, found lying beside him ... not drunk, or even a Navajo, but very dead nonetheless. Charlie Yazzi, fresh from law school, risks his career ... and his life, to help his old friend. The answer seems to lie with the Yeenaaldiooshii ... should one choose to believe...

Boy Made of Dawn is the stand alone sequel to the highly acclaimed Navajo Autumn - second in the Navajo Nation Mystery Series. Follow Charlie Yazzi and Thomas Begay as they again meet danger and intrigue on the nations largest Indian reservation. Old and new characters emerge to unravel ongoing corruption in the upcoming Patsy Greyhorse murder trials. An irascible Ute family and their shrewd ranch-woman neighbor, become caught up in the plot to place...

An ancient and disabled girl--a seer from the past--becomes the key to two murders on the Dine Bikeyah. Survival alone driver her people. But greed takes the reins as we ride alongside our friends Charlie Yazzie, Thomas Begay and Harley Ponyboy in this vivid and compelling journey into two worlds. The Dine soon discover wolves are still among us when archaeology and murder entwine in this latest canyon lands thriller.

Danger and intrigue shadow the nation's largest Indian reservation when forgotten players return to haunt our Navajo friends. Once again Old Man Paul T'Sosie must confront the curse that has long affected his family and friends. Who will live, and who will die, when push comes to shove among the Hataalli of the clan. And, who can say what evil lurks among the Yeenalldiooshii. Another, not-to-miss, canyon lands adventure.

"Stand alone book number twelve in Chappell’s Navajo Nation Mystery series tracks Charlie Yazzie, Thomas Begay, and Harley Ponyboy into unfamiliar territory. When a family member unexpectedly dies, a debilitating sense of loss overcomes our friends on the reservation. The ties that have bound them begin to unravel. What witch’s evil is at work? Is the bond forever broken? Or is there a connection to the ancient past that might bring this malevolent...

"Yellow dirt gathers in the creases of the toddler's dirty blue jeans and on the little hands used to brush away a pesky fly. The same yellow particles that cling to the walls of the Hogan, contaminates the drinking water and fills the air where his father works, to come home covered in yellow dust. Yellow dirt that enriches the powerful, but only at the expense of the unsuspecting Dinè. Sam Klah, now a teenager and left to fend for himself after...