Tony Hillerman
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A Thief of Time
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 13, 2023
- Language: English
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4.11(13201 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.
At 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. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by
bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.
There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places, and Navajo Tribal Policemen Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer. In his breakout novel, Hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of
murder—and offers a heartrending example of love and forgiveness.
Coyote Waits
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 13, 2023
- Language: English
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4.4(610 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman comes another riveting mystery featuring Leaphorn & Chee who must solve the murder of a Navajo tribal policeman and figure out how this crime is connected to a historical discovery and a missing fortune. “Bolt the door, disconnect the phone, and declare yourself off limits…. Coyote Waits is a real confounder, not at all what you expected.”–Denver Post The car fire didn’t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez–a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del and confounded by the prime suspect’s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.
... Read moreDance Hall of the Dead
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Michael Ansara
- Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.02(11635 ratings)
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig–and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuni people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.
... Read moreDance Hall of the Dead
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.02(11635 ratings)
Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young ZuNi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the ZuNi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.
... Read moreFinding Moon
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 18, 2013
- Language: English
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3.85(3252 ratings)
Tony Hillerman’s bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.
Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled into a predictable routine. He knew who he was. He was the disappointing son of Victoria Mathias, the brother of the brilliant, recently dead Ricky Mathias and a man who could be counted on to solve small problems. But the telephone caller was an airport security officer, and the news he delivered handed Moon a problem as large as Southeast Asia.
His mother, who should be in her Florida apartment, is fighting for her life in a Los Angeles hospital — stricken while en route to the Philippines to bring home a grandchild they hadn’t known existed. The papers in her purse send Moon into a world totally strange to him. They lure him down the back streets of Manila, to a rural cockfight, into the odd Filipino prison on Palawan Island and finally across the South China Sea to where Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia into killing fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirts of Saigon.
Finding Moon is many things: a latter-day adventure epic, a deftly orchestrated romance, an arresting portrait of an exotic realm engulfed in turmoil, and a neatly turned tale of suspense. Most of all, it is a singular story of how a plain, uncertain man finds his best self.
... Read moreFinding Moon
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 13, 2023
- Language: English
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3.86(3693 ratings)
A stand-alone novel set in Southeast Asia from Tony Hillerman. A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias’s life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother’s baby daughter—a child Moon never knew existed—is waiting for him in Southeast Asia. A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, he’ll risk everything for the sake of one little girl—and discover a Moon Mathias who’s a better man than he ever thought he could be.
... Read moreHunting Badger
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 31, 2023
- Language: English
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4.06(6932 ratings)
Tony Hillerman’s best-selling reservation series occupies a unique place in the world of mystery novels. By combining Native American lore and history with suspenseful crime stories, he enlightens and entertains his many fans. Hunting Badger takes you to the Navajo reservation where police sergeant Jim Chee is facing a thorny dilemma. One year ago, Sgt. Chee was part of an FBI search for two cop killers. The men were never caught, and Chee has always blamed police rivalry for the failure. Now several commandos have robbed a casino on the Ute reservation. Police suspect they are hiding in the same area as the cop killers. Reluctantly, Chee joins the manhunt, with Joe Leaphorn by his side. The reunion of Chee and Leaphorn adds a warm touch to this thrilling fast-paced tale. Mounting danger and suspense surround the two lawmen and friends as they close in on their prey. Based on actual events, Hunting Badger is a colorful as a southwestern sunset, especially through George Guidall’s sparkling narration.
... Read morePeople of Darkness
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.12(6577 ratings)
A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where nothing good can survive…including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away.
... Read moreSacred Clowns
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Christian Baskous
- Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 04, 2013
- Language: English
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4.05(1627 ratings)
Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a council woman has put a lot of pressure on Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to find her grandson. Sitting on a rooftop watching sacred clowns perform their antics in a Pueblo ceremony, Chee spots the boy. Then, suddenly, the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue, Chee and Leaphorn must follow a serpentine trail through the Indian clans and nations, seeking the thread that links two brutal murders, a missing teenager, a band of lobbyists trying to put a toxic dump site on Pueblo land, and an invaluable memento given to the tribes by Abraham Lincoln in a fast-paced, flawless mystery that is Hillerman at his lyrical, evocative, spellbinding best.
... Read moreSkeleton Man
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4(6206 ratings)
“In his masterly reworking of this powerful myth, Hillerman creates a kachina for contemporary times. . . . No wonder Hillerman’s stories never grow old. Like myths, they keep evolving with the telling.”– New York Times Book Review
From the enduring “national and literary cultural sensation” (Los Angeles Times) Tony Hillerman, a crackling tale of myth, mystery, and murder featuring the legendary Leaphorn and Chee.
Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancee Bernie Manuelito with their latest case–clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post.
Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands.
Proving Billy’s innocence won’t be easy. Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito must find the remains of a passenger who died in the crash–one of 172 lost souls whose remains were scattered across the magnificent tiered cliffs of the Grand Canyon.
But nature may prove their deadliest adversary. To find the proof they need, the detectives must battle a thunderous monsoon and a killer as they plunge deeper into the dark realm of the Hopi Lord of Death–the guardian of the underworld known as Skeleton Man.
... Read moreSkeleton Man
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 14, 2023
- Language: English
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4(7891 ratings)
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Tony Hillerman is an Edgar, Silver Spur and Nero Wolfe Award winner. Skeleton Man received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to investigate a simple robbery. But soon the trail leads back 50 years, to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon that killed a man protecting a fortune in diamonds. “. considerable suspense in the race to bottom of one of the most spectacular and treacherous landscapes Hillerman’s ever explored.”-Kirkus Reviews
... Read moreSkinwalkers
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 31, 2023
- Language: English
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4.4(610 ratings)
Three 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 . . . and into the dark and mystical domain of evil beings of Navajo legend, the “skinwalkers.”
... Read moreTalking God
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Christian Baskous
- Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 11, 2013
- Language: English
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4.05(7554 ratings)
Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors.
But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected — and that others are pusuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilous arena of superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods.
... Read moreThe Blessing Way
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 12, 2015
- Language: English
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4.03(19898 ratings)
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn’s pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.
... Read moreThe Dark Wind
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.1(7578 ratings)
For Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, the case begins when he finds a pair of boots in the rabbit brush beside a wilderness trail. The boots’ owner lies nearby, his palms and soles “scalped” in what appears to be a witch’s scavenging. The federal investigators tell Chee to mind his own business. But a series of disturbing events draws Chee into a dangerous web of intrigue spun by Navajo sorcery and white greed.
... Read moreThe Fallen Man
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.12(6371 ratings)
In his Chee/Leaphorn series, best-selling author and recipient of the Navajo Tribe’s Special Friend Award, Tony Hillerman, magically combines Navajo lore and modern American culture. In The Fallen Man, he brings Leaphorn out of retirement to join Chee in solving one of his most chilling mysteries to date. When a human skeleton is discovered on sacred Navajo land, the publicity surrounding the find sets in motion a widespread investigation and a series of attempted murders. After a Washington group hires Leaphorn to investigate the “fallen man’s” past, he joins Chee in unraveling a deadly intrigue that finally involves players from both the FBI and a suspicious corporation. Sensitive insight into Navajo culture and intricate storytelling explain why Hillerman’s tales are bestsellers. Guidall’s dramatic, well-paced narration makes clear why each release in the Leaphorn/Chee series attracts a wider audience.
... Read moreThe Fallen Man
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Christian Baskous
- Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 18, 2013
- Language: English
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4.12(6371 ratings)
The Fly on the Wall
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 11, 2013
- Language: English
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3.76(3082 ratings)
Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall, seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend’s corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide . . . and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
... Read moreThe Ghostway
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.11(9604 ratings)
An old man’s hazy memory and a Polaroid snapshot are all Chee has to go on, but they are enough to send him deep into an underworld of murder and revenge when a shootout erupts between two strangers at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One man dies and the other drives off, but not before showing old Joseph Joe a photograph of the man he is looking for. It’s not much of a lead for Sergeant Chee, but it’s enough to put him on the killer’s trail.
... Read moreThe Shape Shifter
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4.02(7256 ratings)
Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
“With The Shape Shifter, Hillerman once again proves himself the master of Southwest mystery fiction, working in a Hemingway-esque tradition of pared-down writing to bring the rugged Southwest into focus.”–Santa Fe New Mexican
Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is drawn back into the past to solve a cold case that has haunted him for nearly a decade in this atmospheric and twisting mystery infused with the Native American culture and lore of the desert Southwest.
Though he’s officially retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn occasionally helps his former colleagues Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito crack particularly puzzling crimes.
But there is that rare unsolved investigation that haunts every lawman, including the legendary Leaphorn. Joe still hasn’t let go of his “last case”–a mystery involving a priceless Navajo rug that was supposedly destroyed in a fire. Nine years later, what looks like the same one-of-a-kind rug turns up in a magazine spread, and the man who showed Joe the photo has gone missing.
With Chee and Bernie on their honeymoon, Leaphorn plunges into the case solo, picking up the threads of this crime he’d long thought impossible to solve. Not only has the passage of time obscured the details, but a murderer long thought dead continues to roam free–and is ready to strike again to keep the past buried.
... Read moreThe Shape Shifter
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 14, 2023
- Language: English
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4.02(8806 ratings)
Lt. Joe Leaphorn, who can’t seem to stay retired, investigates a case that takes him back to his earliest days with the Navajo Tribal Police. When Erwin Totter’s trading post burned to the ground back in 1965, the news that Ray Shewnack, a fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, had perished in the blaze drew all available officers to the scene. Joe Leaphorn (Skeleton Man, 2004, etc.) was pulled away from Grandma Peshlakai’s, where he’d gone in hopes of recovering the ten gallons of pinyon sap stolen from her. It was a waste of time, Grandma Peshlakai insisted, since the man was certainly dead. Now Leaphorn’s old friend Mel Bork, a private eye in Flagstaff, has disappeared after sending Leaphorn a photograph of a tribal rug that’s supposed to have been destroyed in the Totter fire. If the rug survived-and when Leaphorn treks out to Flagstaff to examine it as it hangs on the wall of big-game hunter Jason Delos’s lodge-maybe Shewnack, a holdup artist who managed to kill two victims and finger his three accomplices to the police, isn’t dead after all. (Kirkus Reviews)
... Read moreThe Sinister Pig
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 31, 2023
- Language: English
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3.91(5498 ratings)
Tony Hillerman’s mysteries offer a combination of Native-American lore and intriguing crimes that has made each one an instant best-seller. A wealthy Washington businessman will do anything to protect a covert operation that earns him millions of dollars. But when his activities attract the attention of reservation police, his power becomes as unstable as the desert wind.
... Read moreThe Wailing Wind
- By: Tony Hillerman
- Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 31, 2023
- Language: English
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4.1(6209 ratings)
A lost gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie wailing heard on Halloween are among the delicious plot elements Tony Hillerman cooks up in his 15th novel featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The two Navajo cops, one old and one young-who originally debuted in separate series but have been collaborating for many books now-are among the most engaging, fully human characters in crime fiction. As The Wailing Wind beautifully demonstrates, there’s only one Tony Hillerman … and he’s at the top of his game.
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