Tony Hillerman

Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a priceless Navajo rug supposedly destroyed by fire that turns up in a magazine spread, with the man who spotted it missing

An American's search for his dead brother's unknown son leads him to Vietnam as it falls to the Communists in 1975 and to the killing fields of Cambodia

Two separate murders appear to be connected when a runaway student behaves oddly, and Officer Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn must work together to find the connection

Ace reporter John Cotton investigates the murder of a colleague and uncovers a scandal involving a senatorial candidate

Retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn investigates the death of a well-dressed individual found on the edge of the Jicarilla Apache natural gas field, only to have the case taken over by the FBI

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.

The murder of a Navajo tribal policeman turns out to be a surprisingly complex crime involving an ancient artifact

Indian tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigate a casino robbery which killed a guard and wounded another. A manhunt takes them into the canyons of the Four Corners, a region bordering Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hard times farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books...

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.