The Broken Circle — Rodney Barker

"As gripping a true-crime book as you're likely to read all year....Read[s] almost as if [it] had been written by Tony Hillerman."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
In Farmington, New Mexico, a town that borders a Navajo reservation, the tensions between whites and Native Americans reached an all-time high in 1974, when three white teenagers brutally tortured three helpless victims to death. Their punishment by the court was light, but in this extraordinary true-crime story, the curses of the Navajo on the boys may have wrought justice where the laws of the white man would not....