Tony Hillerman Books

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

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. At an ancient burial site, 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 as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer.

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.

Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road—with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell trouble for her supervisor, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police—but it's the echoes of a long ago crime that call the legendary former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement. Years earlier, Leaphorn followed the trail of a beautiful, young, and missing wife to a dead end, and his failure has haunted him ever since. But ghosts never sleep in these high, lonely Southwestern hills. And the twisted threads of craven murders past and current may finally be coming together, thanks to secrets once moaned in torment on the desert wind.

A grave robber and a corpse force Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to enter the dangerous land of superstition and ancient ceremony.

When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. 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.

Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuni, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the search: an archeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni. Compelling, terrifying, and highly suspenseful, "Dance Hall of the Dead" never relents from first page til last.

This book comes from a New York Times Bestselling author. Certain that the simpleminded kid nailed for a robbery is innocent, Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant, Joe Leaphorn, comes out of retirement to try to prove the wrongly accused boy's innocence. To do that he needs to find the remains of one of the 172 people, whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster fifty years in the past. But Joe Leaphorn isn't the only person hoping to unearth the secrets of the Skeleton Man...

"When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Navajo Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mouth full of sand at a crime scene seemingly without tracks or clues, he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer. Blood on the rocks.... A body on the high mesa.... Leaphorn must stalk the Wolf-Witch along a chilling trail between mysticism and murder."--BOOK COVER

7 hours 10 minutesSince his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers.But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's--his "last case," unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just back from their honeymoon, Leaphorn is pretty much on his own.The original case involved a priceless, one-of-a-kind Navajo rug supposedly destroyed in a fire. Suddenly, what looks like the same rug turns up in a magazine spread. And the man who brings the photo to Leaphorn's attention has gone missing. Leaphorn must pick up the threads of a crime he'd thought impossible to untangle. Not only has the passage of time obscured the details, but it also appears that there's a murderer still on the loose.New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman is at the top of his form in this atmospheric and riveting novel set amid the rugged beauty of his beloved Southwest.

A corpse is mutilated in witchcraft fashion, a vandal is repeatedly damaging a Hopi windmill in the desert, a burglar who steals from Jake West's trading post behaves unconventionally, and, when a drug-smuggling aircraft crashes close to Chee, to where does the dope immediately vanish?

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.

In this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of the world around him.

In THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF THE CENTURY, best-selling author Tony Hillerman and mystery expert Otto Penzler present an unparalleled treasury of American suspense fiction that every fan will cherish. Offering the finest examples from all reaches of the genre, this collection charts the mystery's eminent history from the turn-of-the-century puzzles of Futrelle, to the seminal pulp fiction of Hammett and Chandler, to the mystery story's rise to legitimacy in the popular mind, a trend that has benefited masterly writers like Westlake, Hunter, and Grafton. Nowhere else can readers find a more thorough, more engaging, more essential distillation of American crime fiction.Penzler, the Best American Mystery Stories series editor, and Hillerman winnowed this select group out of a thousand stories, drawing on sources as diverse as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Esquire, Collier's and The New Yorker. Giants of the genre abound -- Raymond Chandler, Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Ellery Queen, Sara Paretsky, and others -- but the editors also unearthed gems by luminaries rarely found in suspense anthologies: William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Damon Runyon, Harlan Ellison, James Thurber, and Joyce Carol Oates. Mystery buffs and newcomers alike will delight in the thrilling stories and top-notch writing of a hundred years' worth of the finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing.

Edited by Tony Hillerman, the Southwest's foremost suspense writer, this first-ever collection of mystery stories set in the West contains 20 original entries by such luminary mystery writers as Marcia Muller, Susan Dunlap, and Robert Campbell.

Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is troubled by the nameless corpse discovered just inside his jurisdiction, at the edge of the Jicarilla Apache natural gas field. More troubling still is the FBI's insistence that the Bureau take over the case, calling the unidentifiedvictim's death a "hunting accident." But if a hunter was involved, Chee knows the prey was intentionally human. This belief is shared by the "Legendary Lieutenant" Joe Leaphorn, who once again is pulled out of retirement by the possibility of serious wrongs being committed against the Navajo nation by the Washington bureaucracy. Yet it is former policewoman Bernadette Manuelito, recently relocated to Customs Patrol at the U.S. -- Mexico border, who possibly holds the key to a fiendishly twisted conspiracy of greed, lies, and murder -- and whose only hope for survival now rests in the hands of friends too far away for comfort.

Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have captivated millions with their intricate plots, nuanced characters, and vivid landscapes. In this departure from his usual setting, Hillerman explores a story he's long wanted to tell about an ordinary man caught in chaos. Moon Mathias's life was predictable until a fateful call on April 12, 1975, revealed that his mother, expected to be in Florida, is fighting for her life in a Los Angeles hospital. She was en route to the Philippines to bring home an unknown grandchild. The contents of her purse plunge Moon into an unfamiliar world, leading him through the backstreets of Manila, a rural cockfight, an unusual prison on Palawan Island, and across the South China Sea into war-torn Cambodia. Along the way, he encounters a cast of intriguing characters, including Lum Lee, an elderly Chinese man with unclear motives, and Mrs. van Winjgaarden, a sophisticated art buyer with her own agenda. Only Nguyen, a warrior with "KILL COMMUNISTS" tattooed on his chest, seems straightforward. Ultimately, Moon's journey is not just about external adventure but also about discovering his true self amidst the turmoil. This narrative is an epic adventure, a romance, and a suspenseful tale that reveals how an uncertain man can find his best self.

Following the murder of a Tano clown, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Tribal Police uncover evidence that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a scared artifact in the Tano pueblo

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.

For the very first time in mass market paperback, here is a unique compilation about life in New Mexico by one of the nation's finest writers. Tony Hillerman, who knows the Southwest like no other contemporary writer; presents nine extraordinary, true tales that capture the history and rhythms of daily life in New Mexico. From the comical title story of the holdup that didn't happen, to the riveting account of scientist tracking the Black Death through the arroyos in "We All Fall Down," to the ironic account of how a Black cowboy's commonsense intelligence destroyed the dogma of the Smithsonian Institution in "Othello in Union County," master storytellerTony Hillerman reveals the present and the timeless past of one of America's most beautiful and haunting regions. Tony Hillerman is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of New Mexico and an Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Hillerman is surely one of the finest and most original craftsman at work...today." --Boston Globe Book Review

Zu seiner Überraschung wird der junge Officer Jim Chee beim FBI angenommen, doch eigentlich will er bei der Navajo-Police bleiben und sich gleichzeitig zum rituellen Singer ausbilden lassen. Während er über einer Entscheidung brütet, wird er mit den Ermittlungen in einem scheinbar unbedeutenden Diebstahl beauftragt, für den sich aber auffällig viele Leute interessieren. Chees Nachforschungen führen ihn zu einer dreißig Jahre alten Vision und einer mysteriösen Gruppe, die sich »Volk der Finsternis« nennt. Und ins Visier eines Profikillers, dessen Auftraggeber nicht an der Lösung dieses Rätsels interessiert sind. Die Vergangenheit wirft düstere Schatten auf die Navajo-Borderlands im ersten Fall für Jim Chee. Verfilmt als Serie »Dark Winds – Der Wind des Bösen«.

Unzählige Fundstätten uralter Anasazi-Siedlungen überziehen das Colorado Plateau, staubige Zeugnisse einer untergegangenen Zivilisation. Die Anthropologin Eleanor Friedman-Bernal wähnt sich in ihrer Forschung kurz vor einem bedeutenden Durchbruch, als sie eine unheilvolle Entdeckung macht: Eine der Grabstätten wurde geplündert und ein grausiges Zeichen hinterlassen. Kurz darauf wird die Wissenschaftlerin als vermisst gemeldet. Auf der Suche nach einem Anhaltspunkt beginnt Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, dem Verbleib der wertvollen Anasazi-Artefakte nachzuspüren. Als Officer Jim Chee in einer weiteren Ausgrabungsstätte auf zwei Leichen stößt, stellt sich die Frage: Haben es die beiden Ermittler der Navajo-Police mit einem skrupellosen Dieb zu tun – einem Dieb, der die Vergangenheit stiehlt?

Officer Jim Chee erkennt draußen im Dunkeln gerade noch die Umrisse einer Gestalt, als drei Schüsse die Wand seines Wohnwagens durchschlagen und ihn nur knapp verfehlen. Am nächsten Morgen landet der Fall auf dem Schreibtisch von Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, der seit Wochen über seiner Landkarte brütet: Zwischen Arizona und dem menschenleeren Gebiet des Big Mountain stecken drei Nadeln für drei ungelöste Mordfälle, alle scheinbar ohne Motiv. Sollte Jim Chee das vierte Opfer werden? Auf der Suche nach einer Verbindung zwischen den Fällen beginnen Leaphorn und Chee zusammenzuarbeiten. Und Chee stößt bald auf eine beunruhigende Spur: Ist der Täter ein Skinwalker - eine dunkle Macht in Menschengestalt? Verfilmt als Serie »Dark Winds – Der Wind des Bösen«.

Officer Jim Chee hat einen eigenartigen Haftbefehl auf dem Tisch: Ein Restaurator namens Henry Highhawk protestiert in Washington mit radikalen Methoden für die Rückgabe von Navajo-Gebeinen aus dem Smithsonian Museum. Auf einer Nachtgesang-Zeremonie im Reservat soll Chee den Mann stellen. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn versucht unterdessen, die Identität einer seltsam zugerichteten Leiche aufzudecken, die ermordet im Wüstengesträuch neben Bahngleisen liegt. Während sich unerwartete Verbindungen zwischen den beiden Fällen ergeben, kocht der Streit um die Rückgabe von Kulturgütern immer höher, und Chee und Leaphorn finden sich im Kern eines brisanten Konflikts wieder.

Über der Colorado-Hochebene geht gerade die Sonne unter, als der alte Joseph Joe vor der Münzwäscherei Zeuge eines Mordes wird. Ein Mann wird auf offener Straße erschossen, der Täter flieht in die Schatten des umliegenden Shiprock-Massivs. Officer Jim Chee von der Navajo-Police soll den Mann aufspüren. Joes Beschreibungen führen ihn zu einem abgelegenen Hogan, der Chee vor ein Rätsel stellt: Warum wurde der Ort, entgegen den Navajo-Traditionen, dem Tod überlassen? Die Ermittlungen zwingen Chee, die Tabus seiner eigenen Religion zu hinterfragen und führen ihn weit über die Grenzen der Navajolands hinaus – bis in die schummrige Unterwelt von Los Angeles. Verfilmt als Serie »Dark Winds – Der Wind des Bösen«.

Auf den staubigen Pfaden der Black Mesa wird eine Leiche im Unterholz entdeckt, Hände und Füße geschunden. Kurz darauf wird Officer Jim Chee vor den Umrissen des Low Mountain Zeuge eines nächtlichen Flugzeugabsturzes. Eigentlich soll Chee nur einen Fall von Vandalismus aufklären und sich mit dem zunehmenden Gerede um Hexerei in der Gegend befassen. Doch am Flugzeugwrack findet er etliche Spuren, die dem FBI entgangen sind. Als er den Hinweisen nachgeht, wird er vom Verfolger zum Verfolgten. Ein dunkler Wind treibt Gier und Gewalt über den Südwesten im zweiten Fall für Jim Chee. Verfilmt als Serie »Dark Winds – Der Wind des Bösen«.

Bei einer Verkehrskontrolle entgeht Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn von der Navajo-Police nur knapp einem Mordversuch. Während er sich bemüht, den flüchtigen Täter ausfindig zu machen, wird ihm ein neuer Fall übertragen: ein Doppelmord in einem abgelegenen Hogan. Die alte Margaret Cigaret will ihn in einer Vision vorhergesehen haben. Leaphorn folgt den verschlungenen Wegen der beiden Fälle und findet sich bald in einem Labyrinth aus Täuschungen, Widersprüchen und Geheimnissen wieder – ein Labyrinth, das ihn in eine gefährliche Richtung zwingt. Der zweite Fall für Joe Leaphorn führt hoch hinauf ins Monument Valley und hinter die Grenzen des Greifbaren. Verfilmt als Serie »Dark Winds – Der Wind des Bösen«.

Ein junger Officer der Navajo-Police ist einem Unbekannten auf der Spur, der Vulkanschlote östlich der Chuska Mountains weiß anmalt. Keine große Sache. Doch dann wird der Cop erschossen, und Jim Chee muss seinen Kollegen aus dem brennenden Dienstwagen ziehen. In der Nähe des Tatorts verhaftet Chee den stockbetrunkenen Schamanen Ashie Pinto, der trotz Tatwaffe im Hosenbund jede Aussage verweigert. Für das FBI ist der Fall klar. Leaphorn und Chee aber kommen zunehmend Zweifel: Ein vermisster Geschichtsprofessor war anscheinend hinter Pintos Wissen um die Navajo-Mythologie her. Kreuzte nicht ein zweites Paar Autoscheinwerfer Chee in der Tatnacht? Und was meint der Schamane, wenn er sagt, Coyote liege draußen ständig auf der Lauer?

Als Assistent von Lieutenant Leaphorn hat Jim Chee Aufregenderes erwartet, als den entlaufenen Enkel einer einflussreichen Großmutter zu suchen. Immerhin aber ist der junge Delmar schnell gefunden: Jim Chee entdeckt ihn inmitten maskierter Tänzer auf einer Zeremonie im Tano-Reservat. Doch noch bevor er den Jungen aufgreifen kann, unterbricht ein Klageschrei die ausgelassenen Feierlichkeiten: Einer der heiligen Clowns wurde erschlagen – kein anderer als Delmars Onkel. Eigentlich liegt der Fall nicht in Leaphorn und Chees Zuständigkeitsbereich, aber im Navajo-Reservat wurde ein Lehrer auf ganz ähnliche Weise ermordet. Zufall? Leaphorn wittert einen Zusammenhang, und Chee heftet sich an Delmars Fersen. Der Junge scheint die Schlüsselfigur zu sein, doch er ist wie vom Erdboden verschluckt.

Dva kriminální příběhy z pera předního amerického autora detektivek, čerpající z prostředí obestřeného magií indiánské mytologie.

Výstřel - Lee Child / Půlnoční slunce - Rosie Thomas / Kostlivec - Tony Hillerman / Na život a na smrt - Larry Stillman

Svazek obsahuje výběr čtyř románů s detektivní či kriminální zápletkou od známých amerických autorů 2. poloviny 20. století. Kniha obsahuje tyto tituly: Thomas, Rosie: Bílá touha Child, Lee: Vedra LeClaire, Anne: Krok do neznáma Hillerman, Tony: Kvílení ve větru

Kniha přináší překlady čtyř úspěšných románů se záhadnou nebo kriminální zápletkou od anglických a amerických autorů.