New Releases by Tony Hillerman

This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state''s unique charm. The vivid pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery paint an indelible portrait of life--with all its magnificent quirks and foibles--in the Land of Enchantment. Celebrating fifty years since its original 1973 release, this anniversary edition offers a new introduction by noted Hillerman biographer James McGrath Morris and a foreword by Anne Hillerman, introducing a new generation of readers to the magic of Tony Hillerman and New Mexico.

First there was the trouble at Saint Bonaventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a councilwoman has put a lot of pressure on Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to find her grandson. Sitting on a rooftop watching sacred clowns perform their antics in a Puebla ceremonial, Chee spots the boy. Then, suddenly, the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue, On and Leophorn must follow a serpentine trail through the Indian dons and nations, seekig the thread that links two brutal murders, a missing teenager, a bond of lobbyists trying to put a toxic dump site on Pueblo land, and an invaluable memento given to the tribes by Abraham Lincoln in a fast-paced, flawless mystery that is Hillerman at his lyrical evocative, spellbinding best.

Warum ist das Volk der Anasazi vor langer Zeit einfach vom Erdboden verschwunden? Dr. Eleanor Friedman-Bernal ist drauf und dran, dieses alte Rätsel der Anthropologie zu lösen. Doch dann taucht sie auf einmal selbst nicht mehr aus dem Ausgrabungsgebiet auf. Die Navajo-Cops Joe Leaphorn und Jim Chee stellen bei ihren Ermittlungen fest, daß wertvolle Anasazi-Keramiken gestohlen wurden. Ist die Anthropologin den Dieben der Vergangenheit auf die Spur gekommen?

Margaret Billy Sosi hat von ihrem Großvater einen alarmierenden Brief bekommen, und sie macht sich sofort auf den Weg zu seinem Hogan. Doch als sie ankommt, ist ihr Großvater verschwunden. Haben die Gorman-Brüder etwas damit zu tun, die ein krummes Ding gedreht und bei ihm Zuflucht gesucht haben? Auch Jim Chee von der Navajo Tribal Police stellt sich diese Frage, doch ehe er von Margaret Hinweise bekommen kann, ist auch sie verschwunden. Chee ist nicht der einzige, der sich auf die Suche nach ihr macht – aber der einzige mit guten Absichten.

Le 30 juin 1956, deux avions entrent en collision au-dessus du Grand Canyon. Il n''y a aucun survivant. Presque quarante ans plus tard, un jeune indien Hopi dépose chez un prêteur sur gages de Gallup un diamant contre vingt dollars. Intrigué, le directeur de l''établissement fait expertiser la pierre et apprend qu''elle en vaut vingt mille. Coïncidence, un braquage vient d''être commis dans une bijouterie. Le Hopi est arrêté, mais clame son innocence : le brillant lui aurait été donné il y a bien longtemps par un vieux shaman vivant au fond du Grand Canyon. Mais quel crédit apporter à son étrange histoire ? Autour d''une incroyable chasse au trésor, Hillerman revisite la vieille légende hopi de l''homme squelette, sans pour autant délaisser ses personnages familiers, Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee et Bernadette Manuelito. Un passionnant voyage entre mythe et réalité.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “For the many enthusiastic fans of Tony Hillerman’s previous mystery novels . . . only one thing needs to be said: Talking God is the best one yet!” — USA Today From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, Talking God is the ninth novel featuring beloved characters Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Office Jim Chee Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected—and that others are pursuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilous arena of superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “With The Shape Shifter, Hillerman once again proves himself the master of Southwest mystery fiction, working in a Hemingway-esque tradition of pared-down writing to bring the rugged Southwest into focus.”—Santa Fe New Mexican Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is drawn back into the past to solve a cold case that has haunted him for nearly a decade in this atmospheric and twisting mystery infused with the Native American culture and lore of the desert Southwest. Though he’s officially retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn occasionally helps his former colleagues Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito crack particularly puzzling crimes. But there is that rare unsolved investigation that haunts every lawman, including the legendary Leaphorn. Joe still hasn’t let go of his “last case”—a mystery involving a priceless Navajo rug that was supposedly destroyed in a fire. Nine years later, what looks like the same one-of-a-kind rug turns up in a magazine spread, and the man who showed Joe the photo has gone missing. With Chee and Bernie on their honeymoon, Leaphorn plunges into the case solo, picking up the threads of this crime he’d long thought impossible to solve. Not only has the passage of time obscured the details, but a murderer long thought dead continues to roam free—and is ready to strike again to keep the past buried.

Hot on the heels of his huge bestseller, The Wailing Wind, Tony Hillerman brings back Chee and Leaphorn in a puzzling new mystery The body of a well-dressed fellow, all identification missing, is found hidden under the brush on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. The local FBI takes over from the Navajo Police Sergeant Jim Chee, and quickly has the case snatched all the way to Washington. Washington proves uncooperative and the case is deadended. When Joe Leaphorn, the “legendary lieutenant” of Hillerman’s Navajo Tribal Police discovers that Washington officials hid the body’s identity, lines surprisingly connect to the case he’s working on at exotic game ranch. A photograph she sends him tells Chee she is facing a danger he doesn’t understand. Hillerman produces a galaxy of unusual characters in this compelling novel that is sure to confound readers until the very last page.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman''s Leaphorn and Chee series—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.

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.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “Brilliant…as fascinating as it is original.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn & Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between the supernatural and murder Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn''s pursuit of a Wolf-Witch leads him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself.”— Los Angeles Times The fourth novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman’s highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series. 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 everything good struggles to 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.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! The fifth novel in Tony Hillerman''s iconic Leaphorn and Chee mystery series The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “In his masterly reworking of this powerful myth, Hillerman creates a kachina for contemporary times. . . . No wonder Hillerman’s stories never grow old. Like myths, they keep evolving with the telling.”— New York Times Book Review From the enduring "national and literary cultural sensation" (Los Angeles Times) Tony Hillerman, a crackling tale of myth, mystery, and murder featuring the legendary Leaphorn and Chee. Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands. Proving Billy’s innocence won’t be easy. Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito must find the remains of a passenger who died in the crash—one of 172 lost souls whose remains were scattered across the magnificent tiered cliffs of the Grand Canyon. But nature may prove their deadliest adversary. To find the proof they need, the detectives must battle a thunderous monsoon and a killer as they plunge deeper into the dark realm of the Hopi Lord of Death—the guardian of the underworld known as Skeleton Man.

The photographs of Frank Kessler, a GI in the Army''s Signal Corps during World War II, make ordinary images of war significant, capturing the up-close wreckage and misery of what the men in rifle companies and tank units struggled through, in a volume featuring commentary by World War II veteran and best-selling author Tony Hillerman.

Explores the life and work of Tony Hillerman, including the author''s reflections on his childhood, a discussion of his artistic technique, and a short story.

According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The Second World War was documented on a huge scale by thousands of photographers and artists who created millions of pictures. Photographic companies, designated as the Signal Corps, with their squads dispersed to different battles, had the daunting task of supplying photo documentation of the war. It''s not an exaggeration to say the Signal Corps'' cameramen risked their lives to record the battles and other activities during WWII. The first photographs of the D-day landing were taken by Signal Corps photographers (already on the beach) and delivered by carrier pigeons to command headquarters in England. One such Army Signal Corps photographer was Frank Kessler. whose photographs presented here in Kilroy Was There follow the U.S. Army''s progress from the invasion of France on D-day to the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945. casualties on both sides, the liberation of Paris, the execution of spies, public humiliation of collaborators, the liberation of allied POWs and concentration camps, joyful French civilians and dejected German civilians, and everyday life for the Gls. Kessler''s photographs are of high quality and remarkable in their drama, pathos, and immediacy. Some have been previously published, but most have not. Many of the photographs are accompanied by brief cutlines written by the photographer himself. Author Tony Hillerman''s essays put these powerful photographs into historical context and contribute tremendously to the annals of war. Military historians, combat veterans, and those interested in photography will value this book.

La femme d''un milliardaire américain engage Jim Chee à titre privé pour retrouver un petit coffre de souvenirs dérobés, selon elle, par " le peuple des ténèbres ", c''est-à-dire les membres d''une sorte d''église fondée par un Navajo, mais déclarée illégale par le conseil tribal parce qu''elle autorise, lors des cérémonies, l''usage d''une drogue psychédélique, le peyote. C''est dans Le peuple des ténèbres qu''apparaît pour la première fois Jim Chee, l''un des deux héros fétiches de Tony Hillarman. Impliqué dans une enquête touffue sur fond de magouille uranifère, poursuivi par un tueur qui possède des bombes à mercure, il se retrouve, comme souvent, confronté à ses propres convictions.

Le lieutenant Jim Chee, appelé en renfort par un de ses subordonnés, découvre au sommet d''une mesa l''agent Kinsman, grièvement blessé. A ses côtés, un coupable tout désigné, un hopi venu braconner un aigle en vue d''une cérémonie religieuse. Par ailleurs, Joe Leaphorn est tiré de sa retraite pour retrouver Cathy Pollard, une spécialiste des vecteurs de transmission des maladies, qui a disparu alors qu''elle étudiait une colonie de chiens de prairie susceptibles d''être à l''origine d''un nouveau cas de peste bubonique. Elle se trouvait dans la même zone que Kinsman au moment de son agression...

In just three annual editions, The Best American Mystery Stories has established itself as a favorite among readers and as the fastest growing of all the Best American series. Now Penzler, BAMS series editor, and Tony Hillerman, whose Leaphorn/Chee novels have won him multiple Edgar Awards and millions of devotees, offer an unparalleled treasury of American suspense fiction. The editors winnowed these fifty-five selections from a thousand stories, drawing on sources as diverse as Ellery Queen''s Mystery Magazine, Esquire, Collier''s, and The New Yorker. Giants of the genre abound -- Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Sara Paretsky, and more -- but the editors also unearthed gems by luminaries rarely found in mystery anthologies: William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, James Thurber, and Joyce Carol Oates. Nowhere else can readers find a more thorough, more engaging, more essential distillation of American suspense.

Investigating the discovery of a skeleton at one of the holiest places in Navajo religion, Jim Chee and the newly retired Joe Leaphorn realize that the body is that of a missing person from one of Joe''s long-unsolved past cases.

Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn investigate a crime that involves the murder of a Pueblo tribal official, the death of a schoolteacher, and the disappearance of a tribal memento.

Three classic Hillerman mysteries.

D''anciennes inimitiés ravivées et un moulin vandalisé, un mystérieux accident d''avion et des " Belacani " (hommes blancs) qui disparaissent ou surgissent au cœur du désert d''Arizona. un navajo surnommé doigts-de-fer et un cadavre sans nom : Jim Chee, policier navajo qui ne se laisse pas facilement intimider, poursuivra son enquête jusque dans un village interdit perché sur l''une des Mesas Hopi

When Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez is murdered, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee begin an investigation that unravels a complex plot involving an historical find, a lost fortune, and the mythical Coyote, who is always waiting--and always hungry.