Paperback. Pub Date: Jun Publisher: Harper Homicide is On always an abomination. but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place a corpse with a mouth full of sand. Abandoned at a crime scene seemingly. Details for contempt contempt. Contempt commits of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment. Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air. and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the avest men fear. on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.