The Wailing Wind

A body found in a dry gulch, a tobacco tin of tracer gold, and a phone number linking to a wealthy ex-convict pull Sergeant Jim Chee and the retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn back into the orbit of an unsolved disappearance that has haunted Leaphorn for years. The Navajo Tribal Police procedural unfolds across the vast, sunlit landscape of the Southwest, where past crimes echo through present-day violence and the terrain itself seems to hold the answers. Tony Hillerman's fifteenth Leaphorn and Chee novel is a meditation on unresolved grief as much as a mystery.

George Guidall is the definitive narrator for this series, having shaped listeners' understanding of the Navajo landscape and these characters across multiple books. His patience with silence and space mirrors Hillerman's own prose rhythm, and his Leaphorn carries the weight of the old detective's regrets with quiet dignity. At six hours, it is a compact listen that makes every scene count.