Billy Moon: A Navajo Nation Mystery - Paperback

by R. Allen Chappell (Author)

Book 13 in Chappell's legacy series of stand-alone novels set in the heart of the Diné Bikeyah.
A frantic young girl flees the reservation to escape the horrors of abuse at the hands of her adoptive family. Despising her white father, who they blame for the death of the girl's mother, the man is driven out, later to be found dead along a lonely dirt road.
Suffering through a long and desperate struggle on the back streets of Albuquerque, the girl yet manages to survive and against all odds, eventually claws her way up from the depths of degradation to a life of success beyond her wildest imaginings. Now these many years later, the woman's traumatic past still weighs on her every waking moment. Consumed with dreams of revenge she returns to the reservation. Calling on Charlie Yazzie the Legal Services Investigator is finally convinced to look into her father's long unsolved murder. Longtime friends Harley Ponyboy and Thomas Begay join in but soon find they too, have become entwined in the murderous intrigue... Billy Moon is back!