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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 08
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 08
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
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When two suspicious deaths occur in the Bears Ears area, Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill, and intuition to find justice.
"An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 4
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee volume 4
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee volume 4
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Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is asked to investigate the theft of a box of keepsakes belonging to "The People of Darkness." Then people associated with the keepsakes begin dying mysteriously and a hired assassin is stalking Chee.
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Nominated for the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel
When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results.
It's a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air — with more than enough people wanting him dead.
Officer Kala Stonechild, who has left her Northern Ontario detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked...
When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results.
It's a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air — with more than enough people wanting him dead.
Officer Kala Stonechild, who has left her Northern Ontario detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked...
4) Finding moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon, a Colorado newsman, flies to find the girl. In the course of the search--from the teeming streets of Manila to the jungles of Cambodia--Moon finds himself too.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 3
Navajo mysteries volume 03
Leaphorn and Chee volume 03
G.K. Hall large print book
Navajo mysteries volume 03
Leaphorn and Chee volume 03
G.K. Hall large print book
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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850L
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"The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 06
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 06
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
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What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya’s struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya’s brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Maya’s whereabouts,...
7) Coyote waits
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 10
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 10
Navajo mysteries volume 10
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 10
Navajo mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
720L
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"The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez--a 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 and Jim...
8) Skeleton man
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 22
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Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 3
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 22
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"New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series. When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned...
10) Better the blood
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"A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to a historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal...
11) Moonlight Downs
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Emily Tempest, part aboriginal and part white, is back in Moonlight Downs after a long absence. She left to get an education and travel abroad, and wonders whether she still truly belongs in this remote, rough-edged world. But within hours of her arrival, an old friend is murdered, and the police have set their sights on a rogue aborigine as the chief suspect. It will be up to Emily to ask questions, and make sure justice is served.
12) Hunting badger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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As the FBI ineptly pursues three men who raided a Ute tribe's gambling casino, Joe Leaphorn uncovers a pattern connecting this crime with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero-bandit, and Jim Chee finds a fatal flaw in the federal theory that makes a wounded deputy a suspect.
13) Butterfly kills
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Two separate crimes, two tragic outcomes. Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town's Criminal Investigations Division. One hot week in late September, university student Leah Sampson is murdered in her apartment. In another corner of the city, Della Munroe is raped by her husband. At first the crimes appear unrelated, but as Sergeant Rouleau and his new team of officers dig into the...
14) The wailing wind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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"Officer Bernadette Manuelito finds the dead man slumped over in the cab of a pickup, with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket...and a tobacco tin filled with placer gold. She figures he{u2019}s just another drunk--an assumption that gets her in trouble for mishandling a crime scene and brings down the wrath of the FBI on her supervisor, Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. For Chee{u2019}s mentor, former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn,...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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"Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's -- his 'last case, ' unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just...
16) The sinister pig
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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The investigations of Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee and his love interest border patrol officer Bernadette Manuelito converge when the murder of an ex-CIA agent on reservation property turns out to be tied to an exotic game ranch near the Mexican border, and the embezzlement of tribal funds.
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"As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and charter a plane to Para to check it out. Thirty-nine natives have recently dropped dead of mysterious causes. Given the tense relationship between the Awana tribe and the white townsfolk nearby, Jade Calmon, Para's sole government-sponsored advocate for the native...
18) Stroke of Death
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Cayce's art is well-known and respected among her peers, and, as such, has spawned forgers, copycats ... and enemies. But when her favorite model and best friend is murdered—the masterpiece painted on her skin cut off her body—Cayce knows she's up against a collector of a very different sort.
Detective Richard Henderson doesn't know much about art, but he knows what he likes. Of all the art mixed up in this case, it
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Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes. Stories included are: - The White Silence- The Son of the Wolf - The Men of...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 07
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
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Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 07
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
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Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge, investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
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