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Tony Hillerman

    May 27, 1925 – October 26, 2008

    Tony Hillerman was a decorated combat veteran and journalist whose works often explored profound cultural and moral questions through compelling mystery narratives set in a unique landscape. His writing was characterized by meticulous characterization and an atmospheric depth that drew readers into intricate puzzles while offering insight into the life and traditions of the American West. Hillerman masterfully wove the suspense of the mystery genre with deeper reflections on human nature and societal challenges, earning him widespread acclaim.

    Tony Hillerman
    The Ghostway
    A New Omnibus of Crime
    New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays
    Hunting Badger
    Skeleton Man. Der Skelett-Mann, englische Ausgabe
    Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn & Chee Novels
    • 2018

      The Conspiracy

      • 294 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      A highly organised and well-funded fundamentalist group sets into motion an audacious co-ordinated operation across the world, designed so that each successive devastating terrorist attack compounds the one before, and masterfully engineered to create mutual fear, rage, and distrust among the superpowers. From the back streets of Sierra Leone to the peaks of mountain resorts of Lebanon and passing by the literal heart of the American and Russian governments, no one is secure, no place is safe, and no taboo is off-limits. The world will not even have the chance to catch its breath before the next wave of terrorism hits.For Al Khalifa it is about fanaticism, for Yusof Shevshenko it is about ideology, and for Daniel Durant ‘The Mastermind' it is much more personal, it is about revenge. Their combined schemes drove the leaders of the superpowers to face the ultimate ordeal, the dilemma of rescuing their nations and humanity at the expense of their own families.

      The Conspiracy
    • 2018

      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.

      The Mysterious West
    • 2010

      A New Omnibus of Crime

      • 412 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
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      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.

      A New Omnibus of Crime
    • 2010

      In 1956, an airplane crash left the remains of 172 passengers scattered among the majestic cliffs of the Grand Canyon—including an arm attached to a briefcase containing a fortune in gems. Half a century later, one of the missing diamonds has reappeared . . . and the wolves are on the scent. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is coming out of retirement to help exonerate a slow, simple kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the diamond he tried to pawn from a mysterious old man in the canyon, and his story has attracted the dangerous attention of strangers to the Navajo lands—one more interested in a severed limb than in the fortune it was handcuffed to; another willing to murder to keep lost secrets hidden. But nature herself may prove the deadliest adversary, as Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee follow a puzzle—and a killer—down into the dark realm of Skeleton Man.

      Skeleton Man. Der Skelett-Mann, englische Ausgabe
    • 2010

      The landscape through which railways run is often the inspiration and reason why people choose to model a particular line. Therefore creating a realistic setting in which to operate your railway is an essential aspect of modelling, yet it is often overlooked or left until the last moment.

      Creating Realistic Landscapes for Model Railways
    • 2006

      The Shape Shifter

      • 322 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      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. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed, and now the friend who brought it to Leaphorn's attention has mysteriously gone missing. 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. And they're leading him back into a world of lethal greed, shifting truths, and changing faces, where a cold-blooded killer still resides.

      The Shape Shifter
    • 2005

      Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn & Chee Novels

      Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Coyote Waits

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      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."

      Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn & Chee Novels
    • 2004

      The sinister pig

      • 318 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      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.

      The sinister pig
    • 2003

      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.

      The Wailing Wind