Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits (USA 2020)

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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.

Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits. A Leaphorn & Chee Mystery. Harper, ISBN: 9780062895523 (January, 2020), 321 p., $16.99.

Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits (USA 2009)

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The tenth novel in Tony Hillerman's acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series -- "Bolt the door, disconnect the phone, and declare yourself off limits... Coyote Waits is a real confounder, not at all what you expected." (Denver Post)

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.

Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits. A Leaphorn & Chee Mystery. HarperPaperbacks, ISBN: 9780061801204 (March, 2009), eBook, 336 p., $14.99.

Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
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.

Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits. HarperPaperbacks, ISBN: 0061099325 (January, 1992), 352 p., $5.99.

Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits (USA 1990)

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Setting out to find his good friend and fellow Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, Officer Jim Chee is shocked to discover Nez's car in flames and Nez unconscious inside. Badly burning himself to save his friend, Chee is 'even more horrified to discover that Nez has already been fatally shot. He doesn't have to go far to make an arrest: Ashie Pinto, a poor elderly Navajo shaman staggers down the road near the scene of the crime with the murder weapon in one hand and a bottle in the other.

Chee's only bit of good fortune is Janet Pete's recent return to Albuquerque to work for the Department of Justice. But his emotions become mixed when he learns that she has taken on the defense of his friend's murderer. And Pete's task is made nearly impossible by Pinto's refusal to speak -- even to deny guilt in the crime. Meanwhile, Lt. Joe Leaphom is reluctantly persuaded by a relative of Pinto to investigate the case privately. As Leaphorn becomes more intrigued by a number of troubling and unanswered questions, Chee too is goaded into investigative action through Pete's implication that he might not be doing all he could to uncover a more complicated truth because the victim was a friend.

Eventually, their separate trails lead both detectives to the heart of a complex plot involving a historical find worth a fortune to one man and even more to another's reputatlon. Coyote Waits is another mesmerizing read that reinforces the brilliance of this bestselling author.

Tony Hillerman: Coyote Waits. Harper & Row, ISBN: 0060163704 (July, 1990), 209 p., $19.95.