Based on the best-selling novel by Tony Hillerman, Skinwalkers follows Native American detectives Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police across the high desert of the American Southwest.

Leaphorn, played by Wes Studi (The Last of the Mohicans, Dances with Wolves) is the seasoned older cop, assimilated to the urban ways of Phoenix, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Chee (Adam Beach, Windtalkers, Smoke Signals) is the unconventional upstart, an FBI Academy grad with a sideline as a traditional Navajo healer. It’s a useful skill, since Skinwalkers involves a mysterious killer who has a special antipathy toward medicine men, including Chee.

Ominously, the murderer’s M.O. hints that he is a "skinwalker," a Navajo witch with the supernatural power to change from human to animal, move with lightning speed and kill with curses.

Originally published in 1986, Skinwalkers has been updated to reflect the reliance of today’s police on cell phones and the Internet, even on the reservation.