The Wailing Wind (Leaphorn & Chee #15)
Tony Hillerman
Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road--with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell trouble for her supervisor, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police--but it's the echoes of a long ago crime that call the legendary former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement. Years earlier, Leaphorn followed the trail of a beautiful, young, and missing wife to a dead end, and his failure has haunted him ever since. But ghosts never sleep in these high, lonely Southwestern hills. And the twisted threads of craven murders past and current may finally be coming together, thanks to secrets once moaned in torment on the desert wind.
Tagged as:
- thriller 4
- mystery 3
- crime 3
- western 3
- law enforcement 3
- indigenous mc 3
- suspense 2
- action / adventure 2
- contemporary 2
- historical fiction 2
- police procedural 2
- whodunit 2
- folktales & legends 1
- 20th century 1
- literary fiction 1
- industrial era 1
- protagonists of colour 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- audiobook 3
- book 1
- adult fiction 1
- content warnings
- murder 2
romance tags
crime tags
literary-fiction tags
historical-fiction tags
fantasy tags
sci-fi tags
action-adventure tags
thriller tags
horror tags
Collections/Custom tags
The 'Leaphorn & Chee' series
4.04 · 515 ratings- The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman Book #1
- Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman Book #2
- Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman Book #3
- People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman Book #4
- The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman Book #5
- The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman Book #6
- Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman Book #7
- A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman Book #8