Most Popular Books by Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman is the author of The Boy Who Made Dragonfly (1986), The Leaphorn Mysteries (1989), Indian Country (1987), Dance Hall of the Dead (2018), Listening Woman (2018).

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The Boy Who Made Dragonfly

release date: Jul 01, 1986
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly
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.

The Leaphorn Mysteries

release date: Jan 01, 1989

Indian Country

release date: Jan 01, 1987
Indian Country
A photo-book that explores "Indian Country" in New Mexico and Arizona with Tony Hillerman''s text and Béla Kalman''s photos.

Dance Hall of the Dead

release date: Jan 02, 2018
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 Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. 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 Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, kill again.

Listening Woman

release date: Jul 24, 2018
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. Now 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 further away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.

Sacred Clowns: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel

release date: Jul 28, 2020
Sacred Clowns: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel
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.

New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays

release date: Jan 01, 1992
New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays
A tribute to the American Southwest features text and photographs that explore the area''s landscape, architecture, history, and wildlife.

Kilroy Was There

release date: May 17, 2004
Kilroy Was There
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.

Wer die Vergangenheit stiehlt

release date: Jan 20, 2017
Wer die Vergangenheit stiehlt
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?

Der Kojote wartet

release date: Jan 20, 2017
Der Kojote wartet
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 ...

Das Tabu der Totengeister

release date: Jan 20, 2017
Das Tabu der Totengeister
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.

Das Labyrinth der Geister

release date: Jan 01, 2005

A Thief of Time

release date: Jan 01, 1990
A Thief of Time
When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders. Movie rights sold and characters of Leaphorn and Chee licensed to Wildwood Enterprises (Robert Redford''s production company). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The First Eagle

release date: Sep 01, 1998

The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries

release date: Jan 01, 1994
The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries
Three novels all featuring the Navaho police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn in western settings.

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

release date: Jan 01, 1999
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
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.

Hunting Badger

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Hunting Badger
Three armed men raid the Ute tribe''s gambling casino, and then disappear in the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. The FBI takes over the investigation, and agents swarm in with helicopters and high-tech equipment. Making an explosive situation even hotter, these experts devise a theory of the crime that makes a wounded deputy sheriff a suspect -- a development that brings in Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn to help.Chee finds a fatal flaw in the federal theory and Leaphorn sees an intriguing pattern connecting this crime with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero bandit. Balancing politics, outsiders, and missing armed fugitives, Leaphorn and Chee soon find themselves caught in the most perplexing -- and deadly -- crime hunt of their lives....

Coyote Waits Poster

release date: Jul 01, 1990

Skinwalkers

release date: Jan 01, 1986

Leaphorn & Chee

release date: Jun 25, 2001

Seldom Disappointed

release date: Jan 01, 2001

Canyon de Chelly

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Dieu-qui-parle

release date: May 16, 2018

La voie du fantôme

release date: Jan 01, 1992
La voie du fantôme
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 ?

Le peuple des ténèbres

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Le peuple des ténèbres
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.

Le voleur de temps

release date: Jan 01, 1991

Wolf ohne Fährte

release date: Jan 01, 1995

L'homme squelette

release date: Jan 01, 2011
L'homme squelette
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.

Le vent sombre

release date: Jan 01, 1993
Le vent sombre
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

Un homme est tombé

release date: Jun 09, 2021

Le premier aigle

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Le premier aigle
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...

Jagd ohne Beute

release date: Feb 09, 2026

Schüsse aus der Steinzeit

release date: Jan 01, 1993

Le garçon qui inventa la libellule

release date: Jan 01, 1991
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