Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman. HarperTorch, $7.99 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-06-109932-8
Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee investigate the murder of a fellow Navajo policeman. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 01/13/1992
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