When Spirits Walk

by Christine Gentry

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Navajo deputy Sam Featherock is a rational man, but he cannot explain what he has seen. A wake of shattered bodies has left a bloody trail across the reservation within a week. The numbers of gruesome murders are accelerating at frightening speed. Is something supernatural involved or does someone want him to believe that to throw him off the trail? Tribal whispers say a Hopi witch is to blame¡ªa Skinwalker, who roams the night and causes havoc and death, but Featherock believes he stalks show more a more inhuman foe, an ancient spirit that has broken into our world to exact vengeance for past crimes. Native legend and myth have become frighteningly real. Everything Featherock knows and loves is in danger from a mysterious entity with the most evil of intentions. Nothing will stop Featherock from solving the mystery, but during the lonely dark of night, he learns there is only one truth. You can never sleep until you know what walks the land behind you. show less

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Canonical title
When Spirits Walk
Original title
When Spirits Walk
Original publication date
1988
Dedication
For my father
Hilton A Gentry
First words
Navajo Reservation, 1932
The Navajo man stared resolutely at the panting hare huddled in the wooden box trap at his feet.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)All that remained was for the wu'ya to bring the bracelet back to him from teh mangled bodies of Yellow BEar and Chito

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Horror
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
BISAC

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