New Releases by Tony Hillerman

A tribute to the American Southwest features text and photographs that explore the area''s landscape, architecture, history, and wildlife.

Qui d''autre que Jim Chee, le policier navajo, aurait accepté de quitter la grande réserve où bit son peuple pour poursuivre son enquête auprès des laissés-pour-compte de Los Angeles ? Et ce départ pourrait-il être symbolique d''un autre départ, définitif celui-là ?

Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man''s wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest. But there, out in the Bad Country, a lone assassin waits for Chee to come seeking answers, waits ready and willing to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed in blood.

The author''s journey through the Southwest, with over two hundred photographs taken by his brother.

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.

Author''s first mystery.

A grave robber and a corpse force Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to enter the dangerous land of superstition and ancient ceremony.

A photo-book that explores "Indian Country" in New Mexico and Arizona with Tony Hillerman''s text and Béla Kalman''s photos.

As readers of Tony Hillerman''s detective novels know, he is a skilled interpreter of southwestern Indian cultures. In this book, first published in 1972, he recounts a Zuni myth first recorded a century ago by the anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing. Hillerman''s version of the story, written to be read by children ten years old and up, will have equal appeal for adults with an interest in Native American culture. In our society, Hillerman explains, this would be called a ''Bible story.'' Like stories based on the Old Testament, this narrative is intended to teach both the history and morality of a people. It tells the consequences of a drought in which Zuni crops were ruined and the tribe was forced to accept charity from neighboring Hopis.

From its wry politics to its astonishing history, to the hypnotic rhythms of daily life, here is the New Mexico you''ve never seen but will come to love.