Coyote Waits

He knew the motive. Whiskey.... Water of Darkness... The savagery of whiskey erased the need for a motive. No Navajo policeman - or any policeman - had to relearn that message. Death slept in the bottle, only waiting to be released, and every policeman knew it. This was an excellent entry in Hillerma......more

A Navaho Tribal Policeman is shot in his vehicle and the vehicle set on fire. Another policeman, Jim Chee, finds him and drags him out before noting that the man has already died. Chee and the man have been good friends. Shortly thereafter, Chee finds an old man wandering on the highway. The man is......more

Idly rummaging through some used books on the salvaged table at the village recycling station, the cover of this book caught my eye. Seeing it was one of Tony Hillerman's books, I began thumbing through it and recognized the book as one of the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series I'd......more

Another great mystery with Lt Leaphorn and Jim Chee wrapped in Navajo lore and culture. I so enjoy learning more about Navajo culture. There is vandalism on the landscape, a Tribal Police Officer is killed, a Navajo old-timer and shaman is implicated, an academic is missing and there is an enigmatic......more

Jim Chee has fallen into disharmony. The painful burns on his hand and chest are reminders of failure and not heroism. His arrest of the apparent perpetrator of his friend and fellow officer Delbert Nez's murder only slightly assuages the guilt he feels. Even this small consolation is now being ruin......more