Leaphorn and Chee Novel

18 primary works • 19 total works

The Blessing Way

by Tony Hillerman

Published 8 October 1970

Dance Hall of the Dead

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 January 1973

When two young boys disappear, one of them leaving a pool of blood behind, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police finds himself not only tracking a ruthless and brutal killer but caught up in the intricate mysteries of the Zuni religion as well. For the dead boy was to have played a key role in an important ritual of the Zuni people. An added complication in the investigation and search is the missing boys' interest in an archeological dig that seems to be on the brink of proving a controversial theory. And the FBI's blind certainty that it's all related to a small hippy commune's drug dealing doesn't exactly help either. Leaphorn patiently tracks the murderer into the desert to a terrifying confrontation...

Listening Woman

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 January 1978

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.

People of Darkness

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 January 1980

The Dark Wind

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 January 1982

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?

The Ghostway

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 February 1985

Skinwalkers

by Tony Hillerman

Published 22 December 1987

Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all tied to the elusive and evil "skinwalker." Brimming with Navajo lore and sizzling suspense, Skinwalkers brings Chee and Leaphorn, Hillerman's bestselling detective team, together for the first time.

A Thief of Time

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 June 1988

The disappearance of a respected anthropologist and a bizarre series of murders near an ancient tribal ruin are the key elements in this tale of crime and suspense featuring Navajo detectives Lieutenant Jim Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. Tony Hillerman has also written "Skinwalkers" based on the Navajo civilization.

Talking God

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 January 1989

Coyote Waits

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 July 1990

Another superior mystery involving American Indian policemen Chee and Leaphorn and the murder of a policeman. Includes the usual informative Navajo anthropology.

Jim Chee and Lt. Leaphorn investigate when a Navajo shaman is accused of murder.

Sacred Clowns

by Tony Hillerman

Published 7 September 1993

The Fallen Man

by Tony Hillerman

Published 19 November 1996

The First Eagle

by Tony Hillerman

Published 29 July 1998

An outstanding new mystery to welcome bestselling Tony Hillerman to HarperCollins UK. The plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century appears to have returned today in the high, dry land of the American South-West. But Tony Hillerman's famous pair of detectives, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, discover an even deadlier killer. The victims include not only police but also scientists hunting the key to the dread disease. And the outcome links modern scientific techniques with age-old stories and habits.

Hunting Badger

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 January 1991

Crime busters Leaphorn and Chee are back together on a case and at odds with the FBI in a great addition to Tony Hillerman's acclaimed series. A pre-dawn raid on the Ute tribe's gambling casino leaves one policeman dead, a deputy sheriff wounded and the criminals vanished into the maze of canyons on the Arizona border. The FBI take over the manhunt, but the high-tech investigation grinds to a halt in this unusual territory. It is not until Chee and Leaphorn arrive on the scene that the connection to a famous Ute legend enables the solution to the case. Tony Hillerman, winner of the Edgar and the Grandmaster Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, has written many novels. The First Eagle (also featuring Leaphorn and Chee) was published by HarperCollins in 1999.

The Wailing Wind

by Tony Hillerman

Published 7 May 2002

The Sinister Pig

by Tony Hillerman

Published 1 January 2003

Skeleton Man

by Tony Hillerman

Published 23 November 2004

Hailed as a wonderful storyteller by the New York Times, and a national and literary cultural sensation by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.

Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and Chee, and his fiancee Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it.

Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster 50 years in the past. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attache case filled with a fortune in -- one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery.

But with Hillerman, it can't be that simple. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed. These two tense tales collide deep in the canyon at the place where an old man died trying to build a cult reviving reverence for the Hopi guardian of the Underworld. It's a race to the finish in a thunderous monsoon storm to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice, and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man.--People

The Shape Shifter

by Tony Hillerman

Published 21 November 2006

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 First Eagle Limited Edition

by Tony Hillerman

Published 21 August 1998