228 pages
English language
Published March 30, 2004 by HarperCollinsPublishers.
The Sinister Pig
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The Sinister Pig is the sixteenth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman, first published in 2003. It was a New York Times best-seller.A mystery involving diverted oil and gas revenues, abandoned pipelines, Washington D.C. insiders, and illegal drugs involves Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, now a federal Border Patrol officer. Each turns to retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn, now called legendary by his colleagues as well as by Chee, for assistance. Along the way, elegant and dramatic romances reach happy conclusions.
Subjects
- Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Indian reservation police -- Fiction
- Police -- New Mexico -- Fiction.
- Navajo Indians -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- New Mexico -- Fiction.