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?

Jim Chee von der Navajo Tribal Police wartet nachts vergeblich auf seinen Officer, um mit ihm die Kaffeepause zu verbringen – der Cop verbrennt mit einer Kugel im Rücken im Polizeiwagen. Der Täter scheint schnell gefunden: Ein alter Schamane torkelt nicht weit vom Tatort über den Highway, in der einen Hand eine Whiskyflasche, in der anderen die Tatwaffe. Doch warum sollte der Mann zweihundert Meilen durchs Reservat fahren, um einen unbekannten Cop zu erschießen? Seit der Mordnacht ist auch ein Geschichtsprofessor spurlos verschwunden. Er besaß Tonbandaufnahmen, in denen der alte Schamane vom Kojoten erzählt, dem großen Unheilstifter der Navajo-Mythologie. Und am Ende der Kojotenfährte lauert immer der Tod ...

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.

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 unidentified victim’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 the Border Patrol at the U.S.–Mexico line, 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.

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.

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 nearby filled with tracer gold. It''s her initial mishandling of the scene that spells trouble for her supervisor, Sergeant 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.

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.

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.

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.

Tony Hillerman''s bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos. Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled into a predictable routine. He knew who he was. He was the disappointing son of Victoria Mathias, the brother of the brilliant, recently dead Ricky Mathias and a man who could be counted on to solve small problems. But the telephone caller was an airport security officer, and the news he delivered handed Moon a problem as large as Southeast Asia. His mother, who should be in her Florida apartment, is fighting for her life in a Los Angeles hospital -- stricken while en route to the Philippines to bring home a grandchild they hadn''t known existed. The papers in her purse send Moon into a world totally strange to him. They lure him down the back streets of Manila, to a rural cockfight, into the odd Filipino prison on Palawan Island and finally across the South China Sea to where Pol Pot''s Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia into killing fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirts of Saigon. Finding Moon is many things: a latter-day adventure epic, a deftly orchestrated romance, an arresting portrait of an exotic realm engulfed in turmoil, and a neatly turned tale of suspense. Most of all, it is a singular story of how a plain, uncertain man finds his best self.

Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe''s—his "last case," unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just back from their honeymoon, Leaphorn is pretty much on his own. The original case involved a priceless, one-of-a-kind Navajo rug supposedly destroyed in a fire. Suddenly, what looks like the same rug turns up in a magazine spread. And the man who brings the photo to Leaphorn''s attention has gone missing. Leaphorn must pick up the threads of a crime he''d thought impossible to untangle. Not only has the passage of time obscured the details, but it also appears that there''s a murderer still on the loose. New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman is at the top of his form in this atmospheric and riveting novel set amid the rugged beauty of his beloved Southwest.

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.

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.

Tony Hillerman is a man at the top of his game. The Wailing Wind is yet another North American bestseller. Seldom Disappointed, Hillerman''s recent memoir, has also been a critical and commercial success. Skinwalkers, an earlier megaseller, has just aired on WGBH''s Mystery! Series--produced by Robert Redford, and the first American mystery in the show''s 22-year history. And now, The Sinister Pig is about to be released, the novel that blows open the long-simmering romance between Jim Chee and former co-worker Bernie Manuelito. When the body of a middle-aged petroleum engineer from the CIA is found hidden under the sage brush on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, the FBI quickly grabs the case from Navajo Police Sergeant Jim Chee. Now a former assistant prosecutor and lawyer is asking Joe Leaphorn for his help on the murder, trying to discover why the FBI is withholding the victim''s identity and why there are rumblings of Washington thunder rolling over the case. Soon Leaphorn is drawing his famous map lines, connecting a mystery that seems to involve huge losses of tribal oil and gas royalties, a billion dollar coke smuggling operation, and an exotic animal ranch where wealthy sportsmen come to play. And in the meantime, Bernie Manuelito, now on patrol with the all-Indian "Shadow Wolf" border patrol, finds herself in love--and in danger.

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