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	Tony Hillerman : Skeleton Man : The Sinister Pig : The Wailing Wind : Book Review
		Chee, no fool, soon gets the Legendary Joe Leaphorn in on the case, and the three of them try to figure out who the sinister pig is, and what his true interest in the pipelines is.
		Jim Chee is still in his first month as administrator in charge of the Tuba City Navaho Police subagency unit.
		Meanwhile Jim Chee is busy on another case, but as usual his path crosses with Leaphorn's who is both his mentor and his thorn if only because he feels a bit incompetent in his presence.
	mostlyfiction.com /sleuths/hillerman.htm (2956 words)

	Hunting Badger (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
		Jim chee teams up with joe leaphorn and they work together to find these men.One ends up killing himself,the second is a ruthless killer and the last man they actually find.The problem is that the FBI keeps trying to stop the two from solvin the crime.
		However, one reviewer asserted that a conversation between Chee and Leaphorn concerning coal mine shafts was essentially repeated thirty pages later as if it was a new topic of conversation for them.
		As is their common motif, Leaphorn and Chee are simultaneously working on parallel tracks in ignorance of the other's efforts, but they come together to solve the crime.
	www.vbulletin-faq.com /books/isbn0061097861.html (832 words)

	Tony Hillerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Officer Jim Chee's good friend Del lies dead, and a whiskey-soaked Navajo shaman is found with the murder weapon.
		Officer Jim Chee was thinking that either his right front tire was a little low or there was something wrong with the shock on that side.
		Chee presumed these radio blind spots were caused by the mountains but there were other theories.
	www.tonyhillermanbooks.com /chee/coyote_waits.html (1132 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In a seemingly unrelated incident on the Navajo reservation, Jim Chee is called from his Tuba City office to assist a young Navajo officer, Ben Kinsman.
		Before long Leaphorn and Chee are interacting regularly, and, though pursuing separate threads, carefully weaving a solution to a puzzle which will keep readers guessing who-done-it for most of this all too brief tale.
		Chee's long-time ambition is to become a shaman, following in the footsteps of his beloved uncle, Hosteen Nakai.
	www.themysteryreader.com /hillerman-eagle.html (690 words)

	Tony Hillerman
		Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police must use all of his powers of deduction and insight to extricate himself from a dangerous web consisting of a mysterious millionaire, a sinister, peyote-eating Indian cult and murder.
		Officer Jim Chee discovers an Indian hogan infected by a corpse, a ghost kept from the underworld, and an odyssey of murder and revenge.
		As Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his anscestors.
	www.bastulli.com /Hillerman/HILLERMAN.htm (1875 words)

	Tony Hillerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		How do I awaken Jim Chee, sleeping in his cot beside the paper-thin aluminum wall of his trailer home, so he will not be killed when the assassin fires her shotgun through said wall?
		Chee had been moving in and out of the very edge of sleep, turning uneasily on the narrow bed, pressing himself uncomfortably against the metal tubes that braced the aluminum skin of his trailer.
		Chee yawned, stretched, went to the sink, and drank a palmful of water warm from the tap.
	www.tonyhillermanbooks.com /chee/skinwalkers.html (1144 words)

	Tony Hillerman
		Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.
		Jim Chee is a key prosecution witness since he arrested Pinto near Nez's burning car while Nez lay inside.
		Chee is also goadcd into invcstigative action when Janet Pete feels that lie might not be doing all that he could because the victim was his friend.
	www.lyndalutkin.com /hillerman.htm (1114 words)

	Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman - read review
		Chee, no fool, soon gets the Legendary Joe Leaphorn in on the case, and the three of them try to figure out who the sinister pig is, and what his true interest in the pipelines is.
		Jim Chee is still in his first month as administrator in charge of the Tuba City Navaho Police subagency unit.
		Meanwhile Jim Chee is busy on another case, but as usual his path crosses with Leaphorn's who is both his mentor and his thorn if only because he feels a bit incompetent in his presence.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /sleuths/hillerman.htm (2921 words)

	The Fallen Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Or Jim Chee, one of his characters, upon seeing a woman he finds attractive, will stop and sort out kinship groups to see if he is allowed to court her.
		Chee, often plagued with self-doubt about his professional skills, endures even greater conflict now that his love for Janet Pete, introduced in earlier works, has become an engagement.
		Almost equally compelling is Cheeís relationship to Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the force, a man as confident and secure in his skills as Chee is turbulent and unsure.
	users.rcn.com /denebola/archives/vol37_issue1/issue/book_review/article1.html (1103 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE SINISTER PIG by Tony Hillerman
		She is unaware, however, that her photographs tie in with Chee's case and put her in terrible danger from an unexpected source.
		Chee must rely on his own knowledge, as well as Leaphorn's wise counsel and connections, if he is to resolve the mystery of the dead stranger and save Manuelito's life.
		Chee is a particularly subtle delight here, as he struggles to come to grips with his feelings for Manuelito and his almost painful inability to articulate them.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/006019443X.asp (579 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - The Dark Wind (Jim Chee Novels) (Tony Hillerman)
		Navajo Tribal Police Sgt. Jim Chee seems to be batting zero; so far he has not been able to solve a series of seemingly unrelated crimes.
		Chee is not supposed to go anywhere near or have anything to do with the case.
		Chee knows he didn't do anything wrong, but he is the only one that thinks that he is innocent.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0061000035.htm (635 words)

	Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chee has to deal with death taboos that he believes in while investigating a series of murders and the disappearance of a young Navajo girl.
		Chee's traditional values are illustrated graphically when he must enter a burial hogan to search for clues.
		Here, Chee's relationship with Mary Landon is resolving rather unhappily, and we are given a hint at a coming tragedy in Leaphorn's life, his wife Emma's sudden death of cancer, which occurs between this novel and the next.
	www.dancingbadger.com /hillerman.htm (4182 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - Sacred Clowns (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) (Tony Hillerman)
		Chee has been assigned to find a young boy who has run away from school.
		While Chee is on the trail of the boy, the boy's uncle happens to be murdered almost right in front of him.
		Despite the urgency of the situation, Chee must divide his attention between his job and his personal life, between the ethics of his tribe and the law.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0061092606.htm (571 words)

	Powell's Books - Skinwalkers (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) by Tony Hillerman
		The sound brought him enough awake to be aware that his sheet was tangled uncomfortably around his chest.He sorted out the bedclothing, still half immersed in an uneasy dream of being tangled in 'a rope that he needed to keep his mother's sheep from running over the edge of something vague and dangerous.
		Obviously something the cat considered a threat.The cat had appeared last winter,finding itself a sort of den under a juniper east of Chee's trailer — a place where a lower limb, a boulder, and a rusted barrel formed a closed cul-de-sac.
		But Chee survives to join partner Lt. 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." Brimming with Navajo lore and sizzling suspense, Skinwalkers brings Chee and Leaphorn, Hillerman's bestselling detective team, together for the first time.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0061000175 (1058 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chee is just beginning to investigate when the F.B.I. snatches the case and buries it.
		Chee's curiosity and his irritation with the F.B.I. get the better of him, and he enlists his retired boss Joe Leaphorn to help him figure out what's happening.
		Bernie used to work for the Tribal Police with Jim Chee, but a potential romance between the two of them is going nowhere, so she's taken the new job to try and put him out of her mind.
	www.joebobbriggs.com /bookclub/reviews/S/sinisterpig.html (352 words)

	Books: Hillerman's Latest (Tucson Weekly . 08-31-98)
		He does so nicely here with Chee working on the case of a young Hopi man whom Chee himself found standing over the body of a murdered Navajo cop, and Leaphorn working as a private investigator searching for a microbiologist who disappeared somewhere on the sprawling, 24,000 square mile Navajo Reservation.
		Biologist Catherine Pollard is a "flea-catcher," one who tracks down desert rodents, removes their fleas, then uses them to track the spread of a deadly plague which is killing people in the Four Corners area.
		Compounding the problem is the re-entry into Jim Chee's life of his former fiancée, the beautiful, tough-as-nails Janet Pete.
	weeklywire.com /ww/08-31-98/tw_book1.html (844 words)

	Tony Hillerman Books
		His evocation of the landscape of the Southwest is as compelling as it ever was, and many familiar characters from the other 18 novels in this prize-winning series appear here, notably Sergeant Jim Chee and border patrol officer Bernie Manuelito, the woman Chee hopes to marry.
		Chee finally begins to get over Janet Pete (it took about six books) and inch toward a new love interest.
		And in a moving section involving Chee's spiritual teacher Frank Sam Nakai, the shaman provides a key insight into the case.
	www.cultureplanet.com /mystery/tonyh.htm (1038 words)

	The Wailing Wind, by Tony Hillerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		We see much of the action through her eyes, and the growing friendship/love between her and Jim is founded on mutual respect that is a key to the plot.
		Chee, exercising his legendary tact, makes her feel like an idiot but then, with Leaphorn's collusion, manages to get her off the hook with the FBI.
		Topping the sweet and funny "momma" scene in the first few pages, the most entertaining moment in the story is the interview between the FBI and a Navajo singer, with Jim Chee weaving his own simultaneous interview into the fabric of the assistance he provides to the inept translator the FBI agent is relying on.
	www.dancingbadger.com /wwind.htm (1464 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman
		Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police returns to his home territory of Shiprock and takes on the bungling FBI in a case reminiscent of a real homicide which took place in Colorado two years ago.
		Secretly, Chee is thrilled that the suspects appear to have stolen a plane and left the area.
		Through the interviews of the feisty history professor Louisa, Chee and Leaphorn begin to piece together a legend from the past which may involve the crime from the present.
	www.themysteryreader.com /hillerman-badger.html (669 words)

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		Meanwhile, Officer Jim Chee is stuck with a much moer banal assignment: Trying to track down the men who stole a backhoe from a locked maintenance yard.
		Chee has to do what Leaphorn tells him because Leaphorn outranks him, which often leaves the impression that Chee is Leaphorn's assistant.
		She is given some of the characteristics of the ex-girl friend and is working on Chee to leave the reservation to start a new life with her.
	www.thecolumnists.com /miller/miller374.html (1580 words)

	SciFan: Books: First Eagle, The by Tony Hillerman (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
		While the book invites new readers (little knowledge of the previous books in the series is presumed), one has the sense of entering an old neighborhood where friends and relations are established and emotions run deep.
		Jim Chee's pain is vivid as he struggles under the shadow of Leaphorn and questions the "rusty trailer" lifestyle that has driven him apart from Janet.
		When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=52393 (651 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Wailing Wind at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sargent Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is reunited with legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn in this airy mystery that explores the conflicts between the duty to love and the duty to livelihoods.
		A mutual love that is unexpressable because Jim Chee is her boss.
		When the dead body in the truck turns out to be looking for the Golden Calf mine and is related to the five year old murder, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn join together to solve the three mysteries of the lost mine, missing wife, and murdered trucker.
	www.epinions.com /content_105252884100 (675 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE WAILING WIND by Tony Hillerman
		Chee and Officer Bernadette Manuelito's homicide case appears at first blush to be unrelated.
		Despite the Navajo backdrop, universal themes are present as well: Jim Chee struggling to balance his ancestral traditions with a modern world, Leaphorn facing the unsettling realities of retirement.
		Chee and Leaphorn may have aged, even mellowed a little, other characters may have moved on, but Hillerman's stories remain as consistent and engaging as ever.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0060194448.asp (611 words)

	Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) : Reviews, Prices, Deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hillerman's evocation of the modern Navajo world is unparalleled and certainly has put the area on the all-time literary map.
		Mix in the subplots of Leaphorn himself and Jim Chee's love life, we have a story that is fast off the starting blocks.
		Alas, while much of the action is compelling, the landscape and atmosphere effective, "The Skeleton Man" remains bare-bones and by the end seems to come unglued.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/ASIN/0060563443/Skeleton_Man_(Joe_Leaphorn_Jim_Chee_Novels).html (251 words)

	Amazon.com: Talking God (Jim Chee Novels): Books: Tony Hillerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Here he sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History.
		Chee has come at the request of Janet Pete, a Navajo lawyer with a case that involves a ceremonial mask of Yeibichai, or Talking God, maternal grandfather of all the other Navajo gods, and a museum curator named Henry Highhawk, who claims Navajo ancestry and wants to be included on tribal rolls.
		Leaphorn's grief over the recent death of his wife, Chee's sorrow at the end of an impossible love affair, both men's sense of alienation in the capital city's urban sophistication suffuse this slim, somewhat contrived, tale with palpable melancholy.
	www.amazon.com /Talking-God-Jim-Chee-Novels/dp/006109918X (1344 words)

	ICT [2003/06/12] Adam Beach stars as Navajo Police Officer Jim Chee
		The unlikely heroes, once again, are buried up to their necks in Tony Hillerman's brand of murder and mayhem on the Navajo reservation with "A Thief of Time" and "Coyote Waits," shooting back to back in and around the Albuquerque area.
		Beach savors his role as Chee and says he relates to the character because he sees much of himself in the onscreen personality.
		Chee is a medicine man in training and also a Navajo police officer.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1055427449 (805 words)

	Powell's Books - Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) by Tony Hillerman
		A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee.
		Billy Tuve, a cousin of Chee's lawman buddy Cowboy Dashee, is arrested after trying to pawn a gem believed to have come from the more recent robbery.
		Dashee enlists Chee's help to verify Tuve's story of a mysterious old man who gave him the jewel during a journey to a canyon-bottom shrine.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0060563443 (614 words)

	Mystery! American Mystery! Specials . Skinwalkers . Skinwalkers Country Tour \| PBS
		Elsewhere in the Oak Flats Campground is the deserted spot where Jim Chee's trailer sat during filming.
		Today, federally subsidized housing and mobile homes, like Jim Chee's, are proliferating as the Navajo population grows.
		When Tony Hillerman needed a way to awaken Jim Chee to a mysterious killer lurking outside, he invented a cat that would dart into the trailer and awakens Chee just in time.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/american/skinwalkers/sw_cty_lo3.html (185 words)

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