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Coyote Waits

by Tony Hillerman · 1990

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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.

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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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mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thiswesternwesternMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of this
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Native AmericanNative AmericanMore like thisLess of thismurdermurderMore like thisLess of thispolicepoliceMore like thisLess of this
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Southwestern StatesSouthwestern StatesMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisArizonaArizonaMore like thisLess of this
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anthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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