Coyote waits
by Tony Hillerman
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The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinto. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee could either love or loathe. But when Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial, Lt. Joe Leaphorn begins an investigation. Soon, Leaphorn and Chee unravel a complex plot of death involving an historical find, a lost fortune ... and the mythical Coyote, who is always waiting, and always hungry.
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Fiction, Navajo Indians, Police, Jim Chee (Fictitious character), Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Indian reservation police, Mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction, Navajo indian reservation, fiction, Southwestern states, fiction, Leaphorn, joe, lt. (fictitious character), fiction, Arizona, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Fiction, westerns, Large type booksPlaces
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The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.
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