The Dark Canyon
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns and The Shadow Catcher
IN A RUGGED LAND
STEEPED IN THE BLOOD OF HISTORY.
A KILLER HAS COME BACK
FOR REVENGE....
NEW BLOOD ON AN ANCIENT GROUND...
In an air-conditioned university office, a man lies dead, brutally bludgeoned. A hundred miles away, in the high, arid New Mexico mountain country that Sheriff Cliff Lansing is sworn to protect, an animal is devastating ranchers' livestock, and is now turning to human prey....
For Lansing, the two cases are linked. The murder victim was part of an archaeological dig, and a local Indian believes that the animal killings have been unleashed by the excavations. Struggling to put together the jagged pieces of a puzzle. Lansing unearths a mystery of a missing emerald carving, a one-hundred-year-old diary, and a man accused of a crime he did not commit.
To stop the bloodshed, Lansing must throw out everything he has ever believed about police work, evidence, and reason. Because between an archaeologist's ambitions and the secrets still hidden in the land, Lansing must follow his own trail of myth, legend, and intuition—to find a very real killer stalking the night....
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brutal deaths, nasty academic intrigues, a 100-year-old journal and a precious amulet draw New Mexico sheriff Cliff Lansing into this fourth adventure (after The Shadow Catcher). A 15-year-old shepherd is mauled to death in the hills near Las Palmas. At about the same time, a famous archeologist at the University of New Mexico is found murdered in his office, and Joel Conrad, his graduate student protege, disappears. As these events unfold, Sheriff Lansing calls on scholars to interpret his great-great-grandfather's 1871 journal. The story that emerges from the old journal is a tale of treachery and perhaps mystical power that spans a century. The novel lacks sparkling prose and dialogue, but excels in the historical background that drives the multilayered plot.
