Coyote Waits
1990 • 388 pages

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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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#10 in Leaphorn & Chee

Leaphorn & Chee is a 23-book series with 24 primary works first released in 1970 with contributions by Tony Hillerman, Steve Levine, and Anne Hillerman.

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The Blessing Way
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Dance Hall of the Dead
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Listening Woman
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People of Darkness
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The Dark Wind
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The Ghostway
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Skinwalkers
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A Thief of Time.
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Talking God.
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The First Eagle
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Hunting Badger

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