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Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. But that doesn't mean she's going to sit idly by, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is in charge of finding...
4) The ghostway
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Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leephorn and Chee volume Bk. 23
Leaphorn and Chee novel
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Leephorn and Chee volume Bk. 23
Leaphorn and Chee novel
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
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Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware—witchcraft...
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2019.
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"Welcome to Milagro, a small Southwestern town nestled between mountains, mesas and desert badlands ; home to the good, the bad and the conflicted. Meet Franz Kafka, aka K, unlikely officer of the law, the most conflicted of them all. In this dystopian world, Big Energy is feted for fracking the life out of San Matteo County, a teenager's mysterious vanishing is callously ignored, all the sheriff's men are out training schoolteachers in arms proficiency,...
11) The blessing way
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Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn must solve a murder apparently committed by a supernatural being, the Wolf-Witch.
12) Skinwalkers
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Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all tied to the elusive and evil "skinwalker." Brimming with Navajo lore and sizzling suspense, Skinwalkers brings Chee and Leaphorn, Hillerman's bestselling detective team, together for the first time.
13) A thief of time
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A noted anthropologist vanishes on the eve of making a history-altering discovery at an ancient Nanajo ruin. Navajo Tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee plunge into the past to find a present day cold-hearted killer.
14) Child of the sky
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Vanished volume 5
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[2023]
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"A storm is bearing down on Chaco Navajo Reservation. The Arroyo is in shambles. Its people gone missing. Grant, Kai, and the few others that remain may not have the strength to withstand what's coming. No one shows more distress in the face of this darkness than the baby still growing inside of Caroline. She and Owen soon find themselves in a fight to save the life of their unborn child before the storm--and all it brings--snuffs out its spark. Meanwhile,...
15) The wailing wind
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The mishandling of a murder scene places Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee on the bad side of the FBI and brings ex-lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement into an old crime he hoped to forget.
16) Tricked
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Iron druid chronicles volume 4
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Cutting a deal with a trickster god rarely goes well for any human brave or foolish enough to try it, but Atticus doesn't feel like he has a choice. With members of the Norse pantheon out for his blood, he can't train his apprentice in peace, so he asks Coyote to help him fake his own death. The cost, however, might wind up being every bit as high as if he'd made no deal at all. There are things hiding in the Arizona desert that don't want any company,...
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Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand's unpublished works and the first story in this book, The White Streak, is one of them. Its protagonist is twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how...
18) Talking God
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Washington politics and protest lead Chee and Leaphorn to cases of grave robbing and to a body that was found stripped of all identification. The 2 Navaho police officers, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, featured together in the author's earlier A Thief of Time (1988) and Skinwalkers (1988) once more solve a puzzling, complex murder mystery set in New Mexico.
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
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[2023]
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When two suspicious deaths occur in the Bears Ears area, Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill, and intuition to find justice.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking...
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[1954]
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"When John Curry, galloping across the desert to save the life of an Indian child, was thrown from his horse and badly injured, he was rescued by a woman whose husband became his deadly enemy. For Wilbur Newton was both jealous and afraid. He was jealous of the love of his beautiful and lonely wife, who seemed each day more powerfully attracted to the dashing Curry, and fearful for the safety of an ingenious scheme"--Amazon.
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