Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries

"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...

"Officer Jim Chee is drawn into his Navajo heritage as he investigates the bizarre theft of a box of trinkets -- a theft that endangers his life as well as the life of a young schoolteacher."

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.

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police investigate a series of murders when an anthropologist working at an Anasazi ruin goes missing and two corpses are found on an ancient burial ground.

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

Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo tribal police comes out of retirement for a solution to a case which eluded him 11 years earlier. The case was the disappearance of a local rancher, shortly after he inherited money, while on a hiking trip with his wife. Now his skeleton has been found.

In The fallen man, Navajo policemen Leaphorn and Chee investigate the death of a man who climbed a mountain sacred to the Navajo and his link to a sniper. In The first eagle, Chee searches for the killer of a fellow policeman while a biologist hunts for the key to a virulent form of bubonic plague. In Hunting badger, as the FBI pursues three men who raided a Ute gambling casino, Joe Leaphorn uncovers a pattern connecting their crime with the exploits...

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

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