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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 1.
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3.8 stars
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Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn must solve a murder apparently committed by a supernatural being, the Wolf-Witch.
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 4.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned and is traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon a human skeleton on her trek. While everyone is relieved that Annie is back, they're concerned about a beloved instructor who went...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries 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,...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries 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.
5. The ghostway
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 14.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
10. Sacred clowns
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 11.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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...
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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"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
12. The sinister pig
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 16.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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...
13. Skinwalkers
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries 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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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
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When one of her colleagues is gunned down, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manality helps her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, find the shooter and discovers a link to a cold case involving Jim's former boss and partner, Inspector Joe Leaphorn.
15. Stargazer
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito--serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene--takes an unexpected twist when she's called to help find an old friend."--
16. The tale teller
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware--witchcraft...
17. Talking God
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 9.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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
18. A thief of time
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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...
19. The wailing wind
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries 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...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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When two suspicious deaths occur in the Bears Ears area, Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill, and intuition to find justice.