Tony Hillerman was een gedecoreerde oorlogsveteraan en journalist wiens werken diepgaande culturele en morele vragen verkenden door middel van boeiende mysterieverhalen die zich afspelen in een uniek landschap. Zijn schrijven werd gekenmerkt door nauwgezette karakterisering en atmosferische diepgang die lezers aantrok in ingewikkelde puzzels, terwijl het tegelijkertijd inzicht bood in het leven en de tradities van het Amerikaanse Westen. Hillerman verweefde meesterlijk de spanning van het mysteriegenre met diepere reflecties over de menselijke natuur en maatschappelijke uitdagingen, waardoor hij brede erkenning kreeg.
Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Coyote Waits
Presents three mystery novels featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, including "Skinwalkers," "A Thief of Time," and "Coyote Waits."
Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own. Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up in the most perplexing--and deadly--criminal manhunt of their lives.
Renowned author Tony Hillerman's original essays written for "New Mexico" and "Rio Grande, " plus two new essays, are complemented by the extraordinary images of Muench and Reynolds.
This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers left off, bringing together monumental, important,and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the twenty-first century.
New York Times Bestseller The New York Times bestselling novel by master writer Tony Hillerman—an electrifying thriller of revenge, secrets, and murder. “One of the best of the series.”—New York Times Book Review Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. 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. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.
When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the truth.
The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold of a solution?and is greeted with the most violent confrontation of his career
Legions of fans will cheer the return of legendary Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in Hillerman's most intricate and atmospheric novel yet.When a skeleton is found wedged in the apex of a 1,700 foot high Navajo holy place, the team of Leaphorn and Chee recall a ten-year-old missing persons case that had never turned up the body of Hal Breedlove -- until now. But before the pair can celebrate, an old Navajo guide, the last person to have seen Breedlove alive, is seriously wounded by a sniper. Now Chee and Leaphorn begin to suspect that Breedlove's death was murder, and begin an investigation that takes them through a tangled web of intrigue and deceit and prompts a rash of violence in the high desert.
Navajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn investigate murders that lead them into spine-tingling and mystical world of Navajo witchcraft. Three unsolved homicides and an attempt on Chee's life have left the Navajo Tribal Police baffled. Are the murders somehow connected, although they occurred 120 miles apart? Or are they random acts of violence? Chee and Leaphorn's efforts to solve the seemingly unrelated individual crimes leave them with clues that point toward one suspect, in this suspenseful mystery.Performed by the author.
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.
