Hot on the heels of his huge bestseller, The Wailing Wind, Tony Hillerman brings back Chee and Leaphorn in a puzzling new mystery The body of a well-dressed fellow, all identification missing, is found hidden under the brush on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. The local FBI takes over from the Navajo Police Sergeant Jim Chee, and quickly has the case snatched all the way to Washington. Washington proves uncooperative and the case is deadended. When Joe Leaphorn, the “legendary lieutenant” of Hillerman's Navajo ...
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Hot on the heels of his huge bestseller, The Wailing Wind, Tony Hillerman brings back Chee and Leaphorn in a puzzling new mystery The body of a well-dressed fellow, all identification missing, is found hidden under the brush on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. The local FBI takes over from the Navajo Police Sergeant Jim Chee, and quickly has the case snatched all the way to Washington. Washington proves uncooperative and the case is deadended. When Joe Leaphorn, the “legendary lieutenant” of Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police discovers that Washington officials hid the body's identity, lines surprisingly connect to the case he's working on at exotic game ranch. A photograph she sends him tells Chee she is facing a danger he doesn't understand. Hillerman produces a galaxy of unusual characters in this compelling novel that is sure to confound readers until the very last page.
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This story takes place in the San Juan Basin, in New Mexico, close to where the Jicarilla Apache reservation meets the Navajo Nation, in the very center of America's version of the Persan Gulf. A murder is committed on the Navajo Reservation, which means it's the jurisdiction of the FBI, who will be taking over the investigation from the Navajo Tribal Police in the Shiprock office. But for the moment, it is Sergeant Jim Chee's job. He is assisted by his buddy Cowboy Dashee who, when on the job, is an officer of the Federal Bureau of Land Management. The corpse is a white male with no identification on him, but his clothes say he isn't from around here. It turns out the story is not about oil monies stole from the natives. If you like Hillerman's stories like I do, you will love this one.
