num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: Coyote Waits
titlecomplete: Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee, #10)
characters: Joe Leaphorn, Ashie Pinto, Jim Chee, Delbert Nez
genres: Detective, Thriller, Native Americans, Novels, Crime, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Westerns, Fiction
ratings_count: 11469
places: New Mexico, The United States of America
series: Leaphorn & Chee
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Nero Award
publisher: HarperPaperbacks