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. Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. 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
A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and chee, and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it. Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster 50 years in the past.
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. These two tense tales collide deep in the canyon at the place where an old man died trying to build a cult reviving reverence for the Hopi guardian of the Underworld.
. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. 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. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed.
The Wailing Wind A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 15
No mystery there. Except why did the rich man's bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. 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. She'd fled when it failed. A con game had gone sour. 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. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him.
A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West's multitude of legendary lost gold mines. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman.
The First Eagle A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 13
The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. 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.
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The Fallen Man A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 12
Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet.
Talking God A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 9
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Skinwalkers A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 7
Los angeles timesthree shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee’s trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. 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.
But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft, and blood.
The Ghostway A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 6
One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is all tribal policeman jim chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L. A. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat.
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Spider Woman's Daughter: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
Digging into the old investigation, husband and wife find themselves inching closer to the truth. And closer to a killer determined to prevent justice from taking its course. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Anne hillerman, the talented daughter of bestselling author tony Hillerman, filled with captivating lore, a Navajo Country mystery, startling suspense, vivid color, continues his popular Leaphorn and Chee series with Spider Woman’s Daughter, bold new characters, and rich Southwestern atmosphere.
Navajo nation police officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her.
The Sinister Pig A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 16
. The victim, is found at the edge of the vast jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, well dressed but stripped of identification, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.
A Thief of Time A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 8
In his breakout novel, hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of murder—and offers a heart-rending example of love and forgiveness. 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.
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