Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, &
Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
"Tony Hillerman's novels are like no others. His insightful portrayal
of the vast Navajo Reservation, the spirit-haunted people who inhabit it
and the clash between ancient traditions and modern civilization that
has shaped its present and will determine its future has produced a body
of work unique in mystery fiction."--
San Diego Union-TribuneLegendary detectives Leaphorn and Chee are
pulled into mysteries old and new in this haunting tale of obsessive
greed, lost love, and murder from the "national literary and cultural
sensation" (Los Angeles Times)--New York Times bestselling author
Tony Hillerman.
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 eerily
echoes a long dormant cold case. Years earlier, Leaphorn followed the
trail of a beautiful, young, and missing wife to a dead end, and the
failure to close that investigation has haunted him ever since. This new
case could lead to the truth, and the legendary lawman comes out of
retirement, determined to solve it.
But ghosts never sleep in these high, lonely Southwestern hills. For
Bernie, Leaphorn, and Chee, the twisted threads of craven murders past
and current may finally be coming together, as the desert gives up its
secrets . . . secrets heard in the wailing wind.
