Coyote Waits: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel #10 [B1263]

1990 HCDJ book club edition, in nice clean condition. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "It's always fun to read a Hillerman again after all these years. They definitely hold up. Leaphorn and Jim Chee still live on. The Apache culture and beliefs get full play in this one. Coyote, that rascal, turns definitely darker."; "Excellent book as are all this author's books. He uniquely brings every character to life and boldly strengthens the plots. Never disappoints."; "Another good one with fascinating characters whose interior lives are revelations of the human capacity to do both good and evil whilst simultaneously justifying both. Hillerman's talent for saying a lot with few words is a marvelous device for the laconic Leaphorn, and Chee's increasing spiritual duties are a wonderful and respectful peak inside the Diné culture."