The awful dreams won’t stop tormenting Michael Kincaid’s sleep, bloody reminders of what he’s lost. Trying to get his head straight, he flees LA and heads back into the remote deserts of the Four Corners region to unite with friends and surrogate family from long ago. But an elderly acquaintance’s murder, and a chance encounter with Erin, an old flame from his wasted teenage years, turn Michael onto an unexpected path. Who are those sinister figures who turn up, lurking in the shadows, in Michael’s quiet western home town? And what are the spirits trying to tell Michael as he hallucinates in the Navajo shaman’s sweat lodge?
While Michael struggles to make sense of it all, his central obsession is to figure out whether Benjamin Yazzie, the young Navajo student, could really have committed murder during a botched robbery, as the cops think. The detective investigation the crime says the case is “open and shut.” But is it?
Open & Shut is a fast-paced adventure brought to you by author Edward Donovan, a tale that interweaves the mysteries of the high desert, the spiritual traditions of the Navajo and Hopi peoples, and corruption at the highest levels of power – with a grieving big-city exile’s discovery that he has a second chance at love.
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