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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of...
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Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig ... and a steel hypodermic needle. And...
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 6
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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.
10) The sinister pig
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A "sinister pig" is boss of the sty: the pig who guards the trough and attacks any other animal trying to eat from it. There is a sinister pig in control of the pipelines of drug smuggling between the U.S. and Mexico. But in this business, one can only stay on top for so long. When the struggle for power dumps a corpse onto tribal lands, it gets the attention of Sergeant Jim Chee and his retired partner, Joe Leaphorn. Now the sinister pig must either...
11) Skeleton man
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While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
12) The wailing wind
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Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 15
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Jim Chee calls in retired boss Joe Leaphorn when rookie Bernadette Manuelito discovers a white man shot in the desert, and they uncover similarities to a haunting older case.
13) The fallen man
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Retired Navajo policeman Joe Leaphorn joins his former partner Jim Chee in investigating the skeleton of a man found on a mountain ledge.
14) Finding Moon
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A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias's life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother's baby daughtera child Moon never knew existedis waiting for him in Southeast Asia. A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, he'll risk everything for the sake of one little girland discover a Moon Mathias who's a better...
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For Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, the case begins when he finds a pair of boots in the rabbit brush beside a wilderness trail. The boots' owner lies nearby, his palms and soles "scalped" in what appears to be a witch's scavenging. The federal investigators tell Chee to mind his own business. But a series of disturbing events draws Chee into a dangerous web of intrigue spun by Navajo sorcery and white greed.
16) Skinwalkers
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Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee investigate three murders that show signs of Navajo witchcraft.
17) Coyote waits
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Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 10
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The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Neza 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...
18) Sacred clowns
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A teacher at a mission school is murdered, a boy from a pueblo is missiing, a sacred clown is stabbed to death, and an old man is a hit-and-run victim, forcing Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to cooperate in their investigations.
19) Talking god
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee find themselves in Washington, D.C., where separate trails have led them to shady doings at the Smithsonian.
20) The first eagle
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For acting Lieutenant Jim Chee, the murder of a Navajo Tribal Police officer seems like an open-and-shut case when he discovers a Hopi poacher huddled over the victim's butchered corpse. However, Chee's newly retired predecessor, Joe Leaphorn, believes otherwise. Hired to find a missing biologist who was searching for the key to a virulent hidden plague and who vanished in the same area and on the same day the policeman was slain?Leaphorn suspects...
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