Anne Hillerman Books In Order

The Blessing Way

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 is leading him where even the bravest men fear…
on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

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Dance Hall of the Dead

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 Zu i. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig…
and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zu i people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.

Listening Woman

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 savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human. The solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man’s secrets and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn’s investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible…
and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career. Performed by George Guidall

People of Darkness

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 nothing good can 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.

The Dark Wind

‘Now our daughter will walk again in the male rain falling. Now our daughter will walk with dark mist around her. Now our daughter will go with beauty above her. Now our daughter…
‘Navajos, Mary Landon had reminded him in the Crownpoint Cafe’, marry into the wife’s clan. The husband joined the wife’f family. ‘How about that, Jim Chee?’ she’d asked. And Police Sergeant Jim Chee had found nothing to say to her. Either he stayed with the Navajo Tribal Police or he took a job off the reservation. Either he stayed Navajo or he turned white. Halfway was worse than either way. There was no compromise solution…
To the Jim Chee who was an alumnus of the University of New Mexico, a subscriber to Esquire and Newsweek, an officer of the Navajo Tribal Police, lover of Mary Landon, holder of a Farmington Public Library card, student of anthropology and sociology, ‘with distinction’ graduate of the FBI academy, holder of Social Security card 441 28 7272, it was a logical step to take…
But ‘Jim Chee’ was only what his uncle would call his ‘white man name.’ His real name, his secret name, his war name, was Long Thinker, given him by Hosteen Frank Sam Nakai, the eldest brother of his mother and one of the most respected singers among Four Corners Navajos. Since he had gone to Albuquerque to study at the University of New Mexico, he did not think of himself as Long Thinker. But he did now…
‘ from The Ghostway ‘A first rate story of suspense and mystery…
wholly and inseparably intertwined with the culture of the Navajo nation.’ New Yorker ‘Copyright 1984 by Tony Hillerman. P 1990 by Recorded Books, Ins. Unabridged 5 audio cassettes, 7. 25 hours. Narrated by George Guidall. By arrangement with Curtis Brown, Ltd. Illustration by David Shannon copyright 1990.’ from case

The Ghostway

‘Now our daughter will walk again in the male rain falling. Now our daughter will walk with dark mist around her. Now our daughter will go with beauty above her. Now our daughter…
‘Navajos, Mary Landon had reminded him in the Crownpoint Cafe’, marry into the wife’s clan. The husband joined the wife’f family. ‘How about that, Jim Chee?’ she’d asked. And Police Sergeant Jim Chee had found nothing to say to her. Either he stayed with the Navajo Tribal Police or he took a job off the reservation. Either he stayed Navajo or he turned white. Halfway was worse than either way. There was no compromise solution…
To the Jim Chee who was an alumnus of the University of New Mexico, a subscriber to Esquire and Newsweek, an officer of the Navajo Tribal Police, lover of Mary Landon, holder of a Farmington Public Library card, student of anthropology and sociology, ‘with distinction’ graduate of the FBI academy, holder of Social Security card 441 28 7272, it was a logical step to take…
But ‘Jim Chee’ was only what his uncle would call his ‘white man name.’ His real name, his secret name, his war name, was Long Thinker, given him by Hosteen Frank Sam Nakai, the eldest brother of his mother and one of the most respected singers among Four Corners Navajos. Since he had gone to Albuquerque to study at the University of New Mexico, he did not think of himself as Long Thinker. But he did now…
‘ from The Ghostway ‘A first rate story of suspense and mystery…
wholly and inseparably intertwined with the culture of the Navajo nation.’ New Yorker ‘Copyright 1984 by Tony Hillerman. P 1990 by Recorded Books, Ins. Unabridged 5 audio cassettes, 7. 25 hours. Narrated by George Guidall. By arrangement with Curtis Brown, Ltd. Illustration by David Shannon copyright 1990.’ from case

Skinwalkers

Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee’s trailer as the Navajo Tribal Police Officer sleeps. He survives but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target, and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft, and blood and into the dark and mystical domain of evil beings of Navajo legend, the ‘Skinwalkers.’

A Thief of Time

At a moonlit Indian ruin where ‘thieves of time’ ravage sacred ground in the name of profit a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history altering discovery. At an ancient burial site, amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist. There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places. And as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold hearted killer.

Talking God

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 pusuing 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.

Coyote Waits

First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a council woman 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 Pueblo ceremony, Chee spots the boy. Then, suddenly, the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue, Chee and Leaphorn must follow a serpentine trail through the Indian clans and nations, seeking the thread that links two brutal murders, a missing teenager, a band 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. Performed by Gil Silverbird

Sacred Clowns

First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a council woman 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 Pueblo ceremony, Chee spots the boy. Then, suddenly, the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue, Chee and Leaphorn must follow a serpentine trail through the Indian clans and nations, seeking the thread that links two brutal murders, a missing teenager, a band 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. Performed by Gil Silverbird

The Fallen Man

On Halloween, a skeleton is found wedged near the apex of 1,700 foot high Shiprock, one of the holiest places in Navajo religion. Baffled in his attempts to determine the skeleton’s identity, Jim Chee is relieved when his old mentor, the newly retired Joe Leaphorn, shows up with a solid lead. Ten years before, Leaphorn had worked on a missing person case that involved a man who had disappeared while vacationing with his wife near the monolith. He had never been able to find the body until now. His missing person, Hal Breedlove, and Chee’s mysterious skeleton are one and the same. Before they can celebrate closing their respective cases, however, the plot takes a twist. An old Navajo guide, the last man who saw Breedlove alive is seriously wounded by a sniper in the desert, and Chee and Leaphorn begin to suspect that Breedlove’s death was murder. Renewing their uneasy partnership, they begin an investigation that takes them through a tangled web of intrigue and deceit and culminates in a spectacular snowbound climax when a colossal blizzard hits the reservation just as they’re about to close in on the killer. With its ingenious plot, impeccable pacing, gripping evocations of the Southwest’s harsh beauty and unique insights into Navajo culture, ‘The Fallen Man‘ is Hillerman at his best.

The First Eagle

‘One of our best and most innovative modern mystery writers.’ The New York Times

The very plague that decimated Europe in the 14th century lurks today in the high, dry land of the Southwest. But Navajo Tribal policeman Jim Chee and his mentor, Joe Leaphorn, discover an even deadlier killer stalking the Reservation in this, the most chilling and beautifully crafted story yet from the beloved and bestselling master of Southwestern suspense.

When Acting Lt. Chee catches a Hopi eagle poacher literally red handed’huddled over the bloody body of a young Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open and shut case. Even the Feds usually at odds with Chee agree, and it seems the Hopi is headed for the gas chamber. Until Joe Leaphorn shows up to blow Chee’s case wide open.

Leaphorn, now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, has been hired to find Cathy Pollard, a hotheaded biologist who disappeared from the same remote area on the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect? A victim? And what are Chee and Leaphorn to make of the report that a skinwalker’a Navajo witch’was seen in the same area at the same time?

To answer these questions, Leaphorn and Chee must immerse themselves in the enigmatic web of scientists hunting the key to the most virulent form of bubonic plague since the Middle Ages.

In addition to its finely wrought plot, The First Eagle offers a wealth of Tony Hillerman’s signature gifts glorious evocations of the high desert, delicately drawn characters, and eloquent insights into the foibles and wisdom of the Southwest’s native peoples.

Hillerman’s writing is like the landscape he describes: unadorned yet profound, sparse yet beautiful. Houston Chronicle

Also available unabridged 0694520519 $34. 95 six cassettes.

Hunting Badger

‘One of our best and most innovative modern mystery writers.’ The New York Times

The very plague that decimated Europe in the 14th century lurks today in the high, dry land of the Southwest. But Navajo Tribal policeman Jim Chee and his mentor, Joe Leaphorn, discover an even deadlier killer stalking the Reservation in this, the most chilling and beautifully crafted story yet from the beloved and bestselling master of Southwestern suspense.

When Acting Lt. Chee catches a Hopi eagle poacher literally red handed’huddled over the bloody body of a young Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open and shut case. Even the Feds usually at odds with Chee agree, and it seems the Hopi is headed for the gas chamber. Until Joe Leaphorn shows up to blow Chee’s case wide open.

Leaphorn, now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, has been hired to find Cathy Pollard, a hotheaded biologist who disappeared from the same remote area on the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect? A victim? And what are Chee and Leaphorn to make of the report that a skinwalker’a Navajo witch’was seen in the same area at the same time?

To answer these questions, Leaphorn and Chee must immerse themselves in the enigmatic web of scientists hunting the key to the most virulent form of bubonic plague since the Middle Ages.

In addition to its finely wrought plot, The First Eagle offers a wealth of Tony Hillerman’s signature gifts glorious evocations of the high desert, delicately drawn characters, and eloquent insights into the foibles and wisdom of the Southwest’s native peoples.

Hillerman’s writing is like the landscape he describes: unadorned yet profound, sparse yet beautiful. Houston Chronicle

Also available unabridged 0694520519 $34. 95 six cassettes.

The Wailing Wind

To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old ‘Golden Calf’ homicide, a case he had hoped to forget. Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West’s multitude of legendary lost gold mines. Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed the homicide, and done his short prison time. No mystery there. Except why did the rich man’s bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. She’d fled when it failed. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. Now, papers found in this new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. The first Golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. And while Denton was killing him, four children trespassing among the rows of empty bunkers in the long abandoned Wingate Ordnance Depot called in an odd report to the police. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman. Bernie Manuelito uses her knowledge of Navajo country, its tribal traditions, and her friendship with a famous old medicine man to unravel the first knot of this puzzle, with Jim Chee putting aside his distaste of the FBI to help her. But the questions raised by this second Golden Calf murder aren’t answered until Leaphorn solves the puzzle left by the first one and discovers what the young trespassers heard in The Wailing Wind.

The Sinister Pig

The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.

Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the maze of pipelines and pumping stations in America’s largest gas field? Was he investigating the embezzlement of billions of dollars from the Indian Tribal royalty trust in the Department of the Interior?

On a level nearer to Chee’s heart, did the photographs Bernie Manuelito took on an exotic game ranch near the Mexican border reveal something connected with this crime? Did Bernie, once a member of Chee’s squad but now a rookie Border Patrol Officer, put herself in terrible danger?

Tony Hillerman leads his readers through another of his intricate plots to the solution of this crime, with a cast of vivid characters: a Washington political mogul and his more or less renegade pilot; a customs official who bends the rules; a Mexican smuggler with a conscience; and, finally, ‘Legendary Lieutenant’ Joe Leaphorn, now retired, who connects the lines on a dusty old map to find the answers and The Sinister Pig among the great scimitar horned oryx grazing on the historic Tuttle Ranch.

Skeleton Man

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 fianc e 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 attach 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.

The Shape Shifter

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, and 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.

The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories

Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved by a rational sifting of clues. In Britain, the stories became decidedly upper crust: the crime often committed in a world of manor homes and formal gardens, the blood on the Persian carpet usually blue. But from the beginning, American writers worked important changes on Poe’s basic formula, especially in use of language and locale. In The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert bring together thirty three tales that illuminate both the evolution of crime fiction in the United States and America’s unique contribution to this highly popular genre. From elegant ‘locked room’ mysteries, to the hard boiled realism of the ’30s and ’40s, to the great range of styles seen today, this superb collection includes the finest crime writers, including Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, Ed McBain, Sue Grafton, and Hillerman, a best selling crime writer himself. And we sample a wide variety of styles, from tales with a strongly regional flavor, to hard edged pulp fiction, to stories with a feminist perspective. Throughout, the editors provide highly knowledgeable introductions to each piece, written from the perspective of fellow writers and reflecting a life long interest not to say love of this quintessentially American genre. Hillerman and Herbert bring us a gold mine of glorious stories that can be read for sheer pleasure, but that also illuminate how the crime story evolved from the drawing room to the back alley, and how it came to explore every corner of our nation and every facet of our lives.

Children’s Guide to Santa Fe

Santa Fe offers plenty of fun for children. Although best known for its arts and culture, the city has museums, parks, hikes, special attractions and seasonal events sure to charm children of any age. This newly updated Sunstone Press classic presents an enticing menu of places to go, things to see and activities to entertain and amuse children visiting Santa Fe as well as those fortunate enough to live in the city, all in an easy to read format. Addresses, phone numbers and websites to make the information more accessible are also included. The guide opens with a child friendly chapter on Santa Fe’s history designed to help parents and children get the most out of their exploration of this unusual and fascinating place known for its three cultures. The book also offers a family focused calendar of events designed to guide visitors and residents as they plan their time to enjoy the area’s annual events that have special appeal to children. Also included is information about recommended day trips, as well as child friendly places and events in nearby Albuquerque.

Insiders’ Guide to Santa Fe

Santa Fe deserves its nickname, ‘The City Different,’ for its unique blend of cultures Native American, Chicano, and Anglo among them. Insiders’ Guide in hand, you’ll quickly be captivated by the cuisine, museums, archeology, sports and adventure of this capital city. maps, photographs

Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn

A photographic journey through the landscape immortalized in bestselling author Tony Hillerman”s beloved mystery series featuring the legendary Navajo police officers Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee Step into the world of Tony Hillerman’s Chee and Leaphorn novels with this stunning collection of original photography of the landscape integral to his writing. Alongside these breathtaking photos are brief synopses of Hillerman’s novels, descriptive text from his works, his own comments about the land, and information about the sites pictured. Compiled with remembrances by his eldest daughter, Anne Hillerman, and original photos by Don Strel, here is a timely showcase of a hauntingly beautiful region that captured one man’s imagination for a lifetime. In Tony Hillerman’s Landscape, Anne Hillerman pays loving tribute to her father and his work. For seasoned Hillerman fans, and those discovering his work for the first time, this book offers an intimate and unique look at this beloved author and his world.

Santa Fe Flavors

Santa Fe Flavors Best Restaurants and Recipes
IN A CITY KNOWN FOR ITS FINE DINING, Santa Fe boasts countless restaurants for the food lover. Restaurant critic Anne Hillerman takes connoisseurs on a whirlwind tour through some of the most delectable Santa Fe restaurants and offers recommendations on the best eateries and provides diners the chance to re create some of their favorite dishes with recipes contributed by restaurant chefs.
More than fifty restaurants and recipes are included, with both celebrated and undiscovered chefs.
RESTAURANTS FEATURED INCLUDE:
Bobcat Bites, El Farol, The Pink Adobe, Blue Heron at Sunrise Springs, Coyote Cafe, Geronimo, Trattoria Nostrani, and more.

Gardens of Santa Fe

Take a visual journey through the some of the most spectacular and luminous Gardens of Santa Fe, which boasts an astonishing diversity of flora and fauna, from traditional succulents and drought resistant plants to roses and fruit trees.

Done in the Sun: Solar Projects for Children

In easy to read and easy to do style, Anne Hillerman gives us a wonderful how to book for children ages 6 and up. The book teaches the basic principles of solar energy while providing fun experiments that can be done at home or in school. Fully illustrated, black and white line drawings, bibliography.