When Acting Lt. Is she a suspect or another victim? and what about a report that a skinwalker--a Navajo witch--was seen at the same time and place too? For Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a place where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide.
The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered.
The Fallen Man A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 12
Until the reborn violence of it hits much too close to home. But acting lieutenant Jim Chee is too busy to take an interest in a dusty cold case. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet.
The Wailing Wind A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 15
He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. She'd fled when it failed. A con game had gone sour. The first golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. But the questions raised by this second Golden Calf murder aren't answered until Leaphorn solves the puzzle left by the first one and discovers what the young trespassers heard in the wailing wind.
No mystery there. Except why did the rich man's bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. Denton had shot the swindler, confessed the homicide, called the police, and done his short prison time. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. To officer bernadette manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk—which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene—which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI—which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.
Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one.
The Shape Shifter A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 18
With newly wedded officers jim chee and bernie Manuelito just back from their honeymoon, the legendary ex-lawman is on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he'd once thought impossible to untangle. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier.
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Skeleton Man A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 17
. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in—one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery. But with hillerman, it can't be that simple. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee.
The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. It's a race to the finish in a thunderous monsoon storm to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice, and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man. Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the new york times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former navajo tribal police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery.
Talking God A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 9
A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee.
Skinwalkers A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 7
. And into the dark and mystical domain of evil beings of Navajo legend, the “skinwalkers. ” . But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft, and blood. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant joe leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation.
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The Ghostway A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 6
One of the best of the series. New york times book ReviewOld Joseph Joe sees it all. To an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat.
A Thief of Time A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 8
New york times bestsellerfrom new york times bestselling author Tony Hillerman comes the eighth novel featuring Leaphorn and Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer. All of tony hillerman’s navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous.
Usa todayat a moonlit indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. In his breakout novel, hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of murder—and offers a heart-rending example of love and forgiveness.
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People of Darkness A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 4
. And only one man will walk away. A dying man is murdered. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished.
Hunting Badger A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 14
. When the fbi, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, launch an investigation of their own.