The Wailing Wind - Hillerman, Tony
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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…mehr

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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.
Autorenporträt
Tony Hillerman wurde 1925 als Sohn eines Farmers in Oklahoma geboren und besuchte acht Jahre lang als Tagesschüler ein Internat für Indianer. Neben seinen Tätigkeiten als Journalist und Dozent an der University of New Mexico begann er Ende der sechziger Jahre Kriminalromane zu schreiben. Für seine Ethnothriller um die Navajo-Cops Jim Chee und Joe leaphorn erhielt er von der Vereinigung der amerikanischen Krimi-Autoren den Edgar Allan Poe Award und den Grandmaster Award. Hillermans Romane wurden in siebzehn Sprachen übersetzt. Der sechsfache Vater lebt mit seiner Frau in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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"Hillerman has become a national literary and cultural sensation." - Los Angeles Times

"Tony Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller." - New York Times Book Review

"Hillerman repeatedly shines in this masterfully complex new novel." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Gale force hit!" - People