The Sinister Pig

from amacmillen

Leaphorn and Chee team up to solve a mystery about drugs and corrupt Washington bureaucrats that involves smuggling of drugs through gas pipe lines under the Mexican/US border. Chee saves his girlfriend, Bernadette (Bernie) Manuelito, from the Washington drug lord and and solves the case.

from LyndaInOregon

The transition from Leaphorn and Chee to Chee and Manuelito continues in this late entry to the series as Chee and Manuelito find themselves involved in a high-level plot to move cocaine into the country via a series of disused pipelines. As usual, multiple people and plotlines are involved. Leap...

from egrant5329

This was my first Hillerman book. It was good, but not great. Perhaps in his other books these characters are more fully developed, but they weren't developed in depth enough in this one to fully hook me. There were some interesting references in the book that suggest he knows history and the Ind...

from gypsysmom

I don't read all of Tony Hillerman's books but I read enough to know the main characters and understand their history. This book ties together Lieutenant Leaphorn (now retired but still in the know), Sergeant Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito who has left the Navajo Tribal Council to work for the...

from ffortsa

This is an oddity for Hillerman. The story starts in Washington, with people we do not know, ends up near the Mexican border, and is more violent than other Leaphorn/Chee books. Not very violent, but just more. I found it an uncomfortable read, borrowing too much from the headlines and maybe thin...