Picks and Pans Review: Dreaming Back

UPDATED 10/18/1993 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/18/1993 at 01:00 AM EDT

by M.E. Hirsh

Has there ever before been a jeweler detective? Hirsh sends one from Boston into Hopi territory to investigate her sister's murder. The vivid, silky prose blends mining seams, snake dance rituals and government LSD experiments. (St. Martin's Press, $19.95)