The Maya Pok-Ta-Pok Mysteries Smokehouse Psalms: A Maya Pok ta Pok Mystery, Book 4, (Paperback)

In Ch'altun, the ball is not just equipment. It is civic trust, cured into rubber and stamped into stone. <p>When the court's supply begins to feel subtly wrong, the city does what it always does under pressure. It looks for a single culprit and a clean explanation. But Ix Ch'elel, investigator and keeper of ritual counts, has learned that the most dangerous problems in Ch'altun are rarely loud. They arrive as small inconsistencies, tidy paperwork, and authority that looks a little too certain. </p><p><i>Smokehouse Psalms</i> is the fourth instalment in the Maya Pok ta Pok Mysteries, continuing the series' blend of sport, ritual law, and record keeping in a vivid Maya metropolis where ceremony is survival. With the scribe Tepeu and the watchful Kanil at her side, Ix follows the faint seam where craft meets governance, and where truth can be shaped as easily as a crowd. </p><p>Atmospheric, immersive, and driven by the logic of evidence, Smokehouse Psalms explores what happens when a city starts to value method, and when those who trade in influence adapt by learning how to counterfeit trust itself.</p>

• The Maya Pok-Ta-Pok Mysteries Smokehouse Psalms: A Maya Pok ta Pok Mystery, Book 4, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798242842694
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-01-06
• Page Count: 162