Wolves of Winter: A Navajo Nation Mystery by R. Allen Chappell

Author:R. Allen Chappell [Chappell, R. Allen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

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Sue Yazzie had spent nearly an hour talking to Lucy Tallwoman before she realized Charlie would be home soon and there was still dinner to make. Now that she and Lucy both had phones they thought it silly not to use them. Not many other people they knew had phones, so for the most part they talked only to each other. Lucy pointed out the fact that those phones cost the same no matter how many people were talked to, or for how long, so they might as well get some good out of them. She was a practical woman and generally frugal, though of late her income had risen to the point she had become more generous with herself. Her loom was now in the living room of the new house and she could talk and weave at the same time. But, she said, using her shoulder to hold the receiver was giving her a crick in her neck. Between the two of them they thought they had pretty much wormed out all the information their husbands knew concerning the recent murders. Suppositions still flew hot and heavy as the pair heated up the phone lines. One thing the women did not yet know was the latest on Luanne Keyoni’s problems, and Charlie didn’t intend for them to know either.

Sue heard Charlie’s truck drive up, looked out the kitchen window and said, “Crap.”

Three-year old Joseph Wiley also said “Cwap” though he didn’t look up when he said it. He was pushing a plastic truck across the floor while listening to his mother talk, and had already added several new words to his vocabulary.

Sue Yazzie frowned down at him, but thought it counterproductive to say anything fearing it would only make things worse.

Charlie stopped to feed the horses, and by the time he came in, Sue was in a flurry of activity between the stove and sink.

“Running a little late here… Dinner in thirty minutes.”

Charlie nodded and picked up his son. “Hey, buddy, how’s that new truck working?”

“Cwap.” Was all the boy could think to say about the truck.

Charlie looked across the kitchen at Sue. “Where’d he get that?”

“Beats me, maybe something on the TV. You should hear what some of these cartoon characters are saying these days, even makes me blush sometimes.”

Charlie nodded again, thoughtfully this time, “Talked to Lucy Tallwoman today?”

“Oh, for just a minute. Can you watch this chorizo and eggs for a second? There’s clothes in the washer and I need to get them out before I forget and they sour.”

“Sure. Burritos for supper?” Charlie liked egg and chorizo burritos but thought they went better for breakfast than supper. He noticed the phone, slightly ajar on its cradle and put it to his ear; the earpiece was still warm but no one was on the line. The phone and the TV were a part of their lives now, a bigger part than Charlie had intended. The TV antenna had taken him and Thomas Begay nearly a

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