Review Summaries

• Readers value the depth of characterization and setting, supporting the novel as crime fiction that offers more than detection by giving weight to cultural context.

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• "They teach us that everything has two forms."

  Jim Chee sits drinking coffee while partner Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez meets his demise. Chee catches the obvious perpetrator. A Navaho shaman, with a bottle in one hand and THE gun in his belt. Case closed. Because of his guilt at not backing up his partner and at the insistence of Chee's on again and off again relationship with the defending attorney, Janet Pete, Chee must find out for him self what happened and if he may have made a mistake. Because of a relationship through is dead wife with Ashie Pinto's (the defendant) clan and also being pushed by Dr. Bourbonette (anthropologist), who insists that Ashie is being railroaded, Joe Leaphorn but also investigate from a different angle. He is constantly thinking about what his dead wife Emma would say in the situation. Both men are pushed into what looks like an endless amount of overlapping mysteries of which the murder of Delbert Nez is just one. They ' and we - must deal with the history of the CIA and that of witches.

• tres bien

  tres bonne livre expedier rapidement bien emballer tres satisfaite merci

• Thanks Again Tony.

  I have become totally addicted to Tony's writing. I can feel the heat, the cold, the aridity of the desert country. It is amazing to be so drawn into a book from the first few lines, I loved the book. If you have never delved into a Hillerman Publication, I would suggest that you get yourself down to a decent book store now and purchase a Tony Hillerman book. Be prepared to be transported to another time and place.

• Coyote Waits is a great book

  This book has both Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn in it . It is a good mystery and doesn’t get solved until the last chapter although there a clues along the way and lots of Navajo culture to lean about. MM

• A Colorful Thriller of the American Southwest

  Navajo policeman Jim Chee arrives too late to pull a fellow officer from his flaming patrol car. As Chee recovers from his burns at an Albuquerque hospital, Lt. Joe Leaphorn discovers the tribal cop died not by fire, but by a bullet. And the man found with the murder weapon is the least likely suspect: an old shaman revered as a healer. Though still on medical leave, Chee joins Leaphorn in unraveling the layers of an outrageous plot fraught with murder and greed. Ever in the shadows is the specter of the mythical trickster Coyote. Again Hillerman draws us into the mysterious Navajo culture and the desolate beauty of the desert Southwest. This author is not just a master of mystery, but a long-time Albuquerque resident thoroughly versed in tribal customs.

• coyote waits

  A tous ceux qui veulent découvrir la culture amérindienne du Nord, tant du point de vue social que mythologique. des paysages sauvages à la beauté picturale et des personnages bien travaillés et fort sympathiques

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