Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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When a youth from the Zuni reservation is murdered and his missing Navajo friend becomes the prime suspect, Lt. Joe Leaphorn investigates
When a youth from the Zuni reservation is murdered and his missing Navajo friend becomes the prime suspect, Lt. Joe Leaphorn investigates.
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
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.
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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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,...
6. The ghostway
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
The Federal Witness Protection Program sends a convicted felon into the Navajo Big Reservation without notifying Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, and a wave of murder follows.
7. Skinwalkers
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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With the attempted murder of Officer Jim Chee, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn finds three unsolved homicides may be linked to witchcraft buried deep within the Navajo culture.
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer. 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. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses...
9. Talking God
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Tribal police officer Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn find themselves working side by side when Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk is arrested for robbing Native American graves--and possibly for murder
10. Coyote waits
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Jim Chee is torn between his role as the prosecution's star witness against the man charged with killing his best friend and his own investigation of the crime.
11. Sacred clowns
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
During a Tano kachina ceremony, something in the antics of the dancing koshare, a sacred clown, fills the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found brutally bludgeoned -- in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before. In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown's message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded...
12. The fallen man
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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.
13. The first eagle
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police joins forces with a retired Joe Leaphorn to investigate the murder of a young police officer, the disappearance of a female biologist, and a virulent outbreak of bubonic plague.
14. Hunting badger
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own. Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing...
15. The wailing wind
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Officer Bernadette Manuelito finds the dead man slumped over in the cab of a pickup, with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket . . . and a tobacco tin filled with placer gold. She figures he's just another drunk--an assumption that gets her in trouble for mishandling a crime scene and brings down the wrath of the FBI on her supervisor, Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. For Chee's mentor, former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, the death...
16. The sinister pig
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
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. "Legendary Lieutenant" Joe Leaphorn agrees. Once again he's...
17. Skeleton man
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
"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 case that remains unsolved and contines to haunt him."--From source other than the Library of Congress