Book Description
Three of
New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's most popular novels are together for the first time in one volume.
Tony Hillerman is one of the most revered and honored mystery writers published today. This stunning collection includes the critically acclaimed novels
Skinwalkers,
A Thief of Time, and
Coyote Waits, all of which have been adapted for PBS by producer Robert Redford. This is a must-have anthology from one of the great masters of suspense.
In
Skinwalkers, three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. Chee survives to join partner Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all tied to the elusive and evil "skinwalker." In
A Thief of Time, a noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
And in
Coyote Waits, it wasn't the car fire that killed Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez -- a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinto. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee could either love or loathe. But Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial. Leaphorn and Chee must unravel a complex plot involving a historical find, a lost fortune, and the mythical Coyote, who is always waiting, and always hungry.
Customer Reviews:
Hillerman mysteries.......2007-01-10
As always, Hillerman mysteries are great reads and give an opportunity to learn about the culture of the Southwest. Thief of Time is one of my all time favorites, but I never miss a chance to read anything by Tony Hillerman
Book Description
The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez, a bullet did. Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon. The old man is Ashie Pinto. He's quickly arrested for homicide and defended by a woman Chee could either love or loathe. But when Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial, Lt. Joe Leaphorn begins an investigation. Soon, Leaphorn and Chee unravel a complex plot of death involving an historical find, a lost fortune...and the mythical Coyote, who is always waiting, and always hungry.
Download Description
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work and his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee; plus a special profile of the Navajo nation.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent escapism.......2006-07-08
Picked this up at Albuquerque airport after five days home in the Four Corners and devoured it in one sitting on the plane ride home. Hillerman captures the Southwestern USA as a character like Randy Wayne White captures Southwest Florida, Robert Goddard captures Southwest England or Jim Thompson captured Texas.
The pacing and economical emptiness of writing of Hillerman's books goes perfectly with the climate and geography where they are set. Spend some time on Native American lands and you'll get the point. Hillerman has the New Mexico/Southwest/reservation/Four Corners nailed -- at least, one big aspect of it. His books also are unique -- no one else has carved out the same niche.
I liked the realism of the law enforcement officers jumping to a quick conclusion about how the killing went down that might not stand up to scrutiny. There are cases like the one in the book where it's just very easy not to look a whole lot further, and candid cops will tell you that.
I also like Chee and Leaphorn and how Hillerman gives us two complementary characters, the one older and wiser but perhaps a tad closed to originality, the other younger and more impulsive but also more able to look outside the lines, think outside the box.
Thoroughly entertaining, quick read.
Hillerman spins another great mystery with native legends..........2005-11-12
Hillerman is such a dignified author. That probably sounds strange but his books are well written, well researched, and he makes it obvious that he loves the Four Corners area and the people who live there. He bestows great respect on the religions and beliefs of the Native Americans from that area, and it is interesting to see how they differ from one another, and how they are the same.
As in so many real life murders, people die for the dumbest reasons. In this case, it was over a possible finding of Butch Cassidy in the area, who had robbed a train. The skelatonized remains of the men with the money lay deep in an area considered taboo by the Navajos, yet one member of the tribe who has the ability to use crystals to find things is bribed with liquor to find something within this area which is considered evil. A tribal policeman gets shot along with other innocents who just happened to be in the area, and all of this leads Chee and Leaphorn to do some research of their own.
I guess this is far enough into the series that Leaphorn is starting to learn respect for Chee, who has a tendency to go off on his own, and doesn't always obey the rules.
The tidbits given about Coyote and the importance of making choices between good and evil in the Navajo religion are of great interest to me, and I will continue to enjoy Hillerman's novels. It helps that he is so prolific...
Karen Sadler
A Great Mystery.......2005-09-28
Coyote Waits is one of Hillerman's best. I have read most of Hillerman's Navajo Mysteries and found this one to be near the top, the prose is simple and elegant, (no wasted words here) the landscapes descriptive and vivid (but not romantic). Coyote Waits is an excellent mystery, not overly complex or mind-numbingly predictable. This is Hillerman at top form and there are few like him.
Anthropological Masterpiece.......2005-08-04
I had to read this book for a college class in Cultural Anthropology a few years ago. I must say that it was a really fascinating read, if not the most well laid out detective novel. Things do look random from one perspective, as Leaphorn said he used to think, just like the paint on the rocks looked random until seen from the right perspective (another Navajo principle of metaphysics). This book is loaded with Navajo metaphysics and cultural insights. I think the story of Ashie Pinto's alcoholism is quite sad, actually, and I don't entirely understand the concept of the coyote in Navajo culture, but this is still a great read. I wouldn't at all pass it up.
Don't Wait To Read This One!.......2005-04-30
A friend suggested that I try one of Tony Hillerman's books and COYOTE WAITS is the one that I picked up. After finishing it, I was really glad that I had listened!
This is the story of murder and mystery on a Navajo reservation located in Arizona and New Mexico (it crosses the border into both states). A Tribal Police Officer is murdered and an old shaman (medicine man) is charged with the murder. Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn (both Tribal officers) go their own ways to try and solve this case and end up crossing paths several times. Hillerman then throws in the family of the shaman who is trying to get someone to believe in his innocence. Next in the story is a young, female public defender that has just returned from Washington back to the place where she grew up and her first assignment is this case. A missing history professor in search of Butch Cassidy and a few other asundery characters are added to the mix for good measure. They all total a wide variety of personalities and ideas, which is part of the intrigue of COYOTE WAITS.
This story was very interesting and at times suspenseful. It's more of a mystery type story than a tale filled with suspense, but it is very well done. The characters are vivid and seem to be mimicked from real-life people. The reservation, customs, and Indian myths are accurate and well described. These are interwoven into a book that wets your appetite for more and Tony Hillerman has a long list from which to choose.
This book was the beginning of my journey with Hillerman, and if the others are as enjoyable, I will be very pleased.
Book Description
Three of
New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's most popular novels -- a must-have anthology from one of the great masters of suspense.
Audio includes:
Skinwalkers: Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. Chee survives to join partner Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all tied to the elusive and evil "skinwalker."
A Thief of Time: A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
Coyote Waits: It wasn't the car fire that killed Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez. A bullet did. Ashie Pinto is quickly arrested for homicide, but Pinto won't utter a word of confession or denial. Leaphorn and Chee must unravel a complex plot involving an historical find, a lost fortune ... and the mythical Coyote, who is always waiting, and always hungry.
Also includes selections from Tony Hillerman's autobiography,
Seldom Disappointed.
Enhanced CD: CD features an interactive program which can be viewed on your computer, including: a photo galary, an author Q&A and a 35 years of excellence timeline.
Customer Reviews:
love these novels.......2007-05-13
I love the Chee Leaphorn novels just wonder where leaphorn retired and what was the first Leaphorn/ Chee novel
Fun to read, fun to listen.......2007-02-07
I have read and liked all of the Hillerman books. Its great to pick up the CDs and load them up on my IPod and enjoy them one more time. Great for the commute or walks.
Customer Reviews:
"They teach us that everything has two forms.".......2006-07-11
Jim Chee sits drinking coffee while partner Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez meets his demise. Chee catches the obvious perpetrator. A Navaho shaman, with a bottle in one hand and THE gun in his belt. Case closed.
Because of his guilt at not backing up his partner and at the insistence of Chee's on again and off again relationship with the defending attorney, Janet Pete, Chee must find out for him self what happened and if he may have made a mistake.
Because of a relationship through is dead wife with Ashie Pinto's (the defendant) clan and also being pushed by Dr. Bourbonette (anthropologist), who insists that Ashie is being railroaded, Joe Leaphorn but also investigate from a different angle. He is constantly thinking about what his dead wife Emma would say in the situation.
Both men are pushed into what looks like an endless amount of overlapping mysteries of which the murder of Delbert Nez is just one. They - and we - must deal with the history of the CIA and that of witches.
Product Description
7 massmarket paperback Titles in Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Series - Skinwalkers - A Thief of Tme - Coyote Waits - Sacred Clowns - Fallen Man - Hunting Badger - Skeleton Man
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COYOTE WAITS
HILLERMAN TONY
Manufacturer: HARPER &ROW IST EDIT 1990
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Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman
Manufacturer: Michael Joseph Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover
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Customer Reviews:
"They teach us that everything has two forms.".......2007-02-11
Jim Chee sits drinking coffee while partner Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez meets his demise. Chee catches the obvious perpetrator. A Navaho shaman, with a bottle in one hand and THE gun in his belt. Case closed.
Because of his guilt at not backing up his partner and at the insistence of Chee's on again and off again relationship with the defending attorney, Janet Pete, Chee must find out for him self what happened and if he may have made a mistake.
Because of a relationship through is dead wife with Ashie Pinto's (the defendant) clan and also being pushed by Dr. Bourbonette (anthropologist), who insists that Ashie is being railroaded, Joe Leaphorn but also investigate from a different angle. He is constantly thinking about what his dead wife Emma would say in the situation.
Both men are pushed into what looks like an endless amount of overlapping mysteries of which the murder of Delbert Nez is just one. They - and we - must deal with the history of the CIA and that of witches.
Book Description
A wizard and his hapless apprentice search for a cure to the wizard's allergy to magic-while avoiding such perils as tap-dancing dragons, enchanted chickens, and sinister shrubbery...
"A lot of fun." (Christopher Stasheff)
Customer Reviews:
Could I have been reading a different book?.......2002-10-17
Once again, I have to wonder what book I was reading. It couldn't possibly be this book, with glowing reviews of how funny it was.
Now, don't get me wrong; this book was funny. In a few places, and at certain moments, sure. But it wasn't great humor, or, to me, even very good humor. When I was 12, I'm sure I would have found this book wonderfully funny. But I think I've passed the point where I can overlook all of the things about this book that irked me. Even in a comedy, I really prefer to have my characters and plots thought out better.
Good idea, the whole story, but there was nothing to this book at all. I know there's such a thing as light humorous fantasy, but this was a little much, even for me.
The characters are bare bones in development, and the plot just seems to go in circles. The humor has it's moments; unfortunately, they're few, and far between.
All in all, I much prefer, say, the Myth series, or Phule's Company.
I'll probably finish the series, just to see how it turns out, but I have to say, I'm not enjoying it all that much.
And, to those who love this book, I'm sorry. I just don't see it.
Delightful.......2002-02-07
Suspended somewhere between the shallow-silly world of Xanth and the wry quirkiness of Discworld is the strange world of Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice Wuntvor.
Wuntvor is the apprentice of the famed magician Ebenezum (whose main vice is being somewhat greedy). But when a sinister demon, Guxx Unfufadoo, is conjured up -- the worst kind, a rhyming demon, whose power grows with every rhyme he utters. (Fortunately he's not too good at it) And Ebenezum manages to survive Guxx's attempt to kill him. But he soon discovers that Guxx has made him allergic to magic: whenever he's near magic, he starts sneezing uncontrollably.
After self-treatment fails (miserably) Ebenezum concludes that he can only be cured in Vushta, the City of Forbidden Delights. Wuntvor, being a typical teenage male, has no problems at all with this. But their way is fraught with peril -- much of it with silly dialogue, beautiful girls, and more than a few lunatics. Along the way they will encounter a singing-dancing dragon, a used-weapons dealer (who is also a demon), a mildly crazed warrior Hendrek with his club called Headbasher, Death in a game-show setting ("Now, Wuntvor, are you ready to double your lifespan?"), a cult that worships Plaugg the Fairly Magnificent, trial by custard, and demons trying to invade the world from the supernatural Netherhells.
As you can tell, this is not a particularly serious book. It reads like a series of loosely interconnected vignettes (because it was originally published that way) but somehow the episodic tendencies never bothered me. Every chapter is started with a hilarious quote from the Teachings of Ebenezum.
The humor ranges from the character oriented (Wuntvor's perpetually hormone-addled state) to the wry and funny (the hideous torment of aspirin commercials) to the low ("Neebekenezer's Syndrome of Universal Flatulence" and the chicken that... well, never mind).
The humor generally stems from the characters (Wuntvor's perpetually hormone-addled state) or the silly situations (Ebenezum being chased out by Grandmother) or the delightful dialogue ("What rhymes with silver?" "Orange!") such as Ebenezum critiquing Guxx's terrible rhymes. ("There is no justice in the cosmos. At least no poetic justice.")
The characters are hilarious: Ebenezum is the archetypical wizard, with a few secrets and flaws up his voluminous blue sleeve. Wuntvor is the character we see the world through, but he is as quirky as Ebenezum in his own realistic manner: He falls for every pretty girl nearby, looks forward to Vushta, and is a little too gangly and earnest for his own good. Supporting characters (with the exception of Snarks and Hendrek) are generally not developed as well, since they often vanish after a few chapters. This book is okay for most kids and all teens -- a few kisses between Wuntvor and his various love interests is about all that is objectionable.
It's fantastic that this book is back in print. A must-read for fans of fantasy and comedy.
A Masterpiece, Sheer and Unchallenged!.......2001-04-28
First and formost, I would like to express my most dire sorrow that this book and it's fellows were ever allowed to go out of print. I was lucky enough to pick up a copy of the first three books in this series at a used bookstore some time past, and was amazed to discover that I had purchased one of the greatest reads of my entire life! Truly absorbing, these novels weave along the border of the ludicrous, but never betray their sincere nature to crack humour. Each character is at once incredibly distinct and incredibly funny! A MUST-READ for any fan of fiction!
The funniest book in AGES!.......1999-03-17
This is probably the funniest book in ages. I picked it up along with the others in the series at a garage sale in the summer. I wonder if the seller knew they didn't sell this anymore...Anyway this is hilarious and good on days when you feel bad. I think it's a pity that they stopped printing it because it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. I have pity for those who never got a chance to read this and hope that somehow anyone looking for it can find it. START PRINTING IT AGAIN I SAY!
One of the funniest books I've read (and I've read a lot).......1998-08-27
Here it is, short and sweet.
Funny. Had me in stitches, tears, the whole nine yards. It's a quick read so even if you're not too sure you'll like it you won't waste much time finding out. Give it a try if you like clever writing.
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- Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)
- Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder Novels)
- 1st to Die: A Novel
- A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Mysteries)
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- A Season in the Highlands : Unfinished Business / Fall from Grace / Cold Feet / The Matchmaker / The Christmas Captive
- A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics
- A Tourist In The Yucatan
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