The Wailing Wind

Cultural Heritage Fiction

Author: 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 echoe….Read More

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