POWERED BY THE MYTHICAL Aztec goddess Cōātlīcue, with her skirt made of snakes, The Sleeping Sisters (Mulholland Books) is a roiling stew of Chicana-Indigenous literary horror. Albuquerque resident Jennifer Givhan sets her seventh novel against the backdrop of the city’s unsolved 2009 West Mesa murders, when the remains of 11 girls and women were discovered in the desert. When Fortuna Miércoles moves her family to a nicer neighborhood 20 years after their disappearance, she knows in her bones she can’t outrun a generational curse. Meanwhile, Detective Jeanette Palacio has a feeling those Sleeping Sisters might be waking up. Givhan’s taut plotting and atmosphere complement characters who feel like they could be sitting in the next booth over at the Flying Star.