Books by Tony Hillerman and Complete Book Reviews

Tony Hillerman, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-019444-4
The 15th Chee/Leaphorn mystery (after 1999's relatively weak Hunting Badger) finds MWA Grand Master Hillerman back at the top of his form as his two Navajo peace officers look into both a past and present mystery. Religious fervency and single-mi
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-06-016370-9
Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above...
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $17.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-06-016118-7
Hillerman's latest is not quite up to his best standards, but it's still a wonderfully readable, involving mystery. Here he sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to...
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.45 (209p) ISBN 978-0-06-015938-2
Topping even his highly praised The Blessing Way and Skinwalkers, Hillerman's new novel seamlessly unites drama, pathos and naturally humorous incidents in the continuing story of Navajo life set in the American Southwest. Tribal police officers Joe
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperLargePrint $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-621399-6
Correction: Due to an editing error, our review of Tony Hillerman's Seldom Disappointed (Forecasts, Sept. 24) erroneously stated that Hillerman's brother, Barry, died in WWII. In fact, he survived the war and lived for many decades. PW regrets...
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-100004-1
Here, kicking off a new mass market paperback line, tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee head a big and skillfully realized cast involved in the disappearance of an anthropologist. ``Hillerman's new novel seamlessly unites drama, pathos...
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-06-015695-4
Vibrant with the spirit of the Navajo people of the Southwest, Hillerman's new story is a spellbinder, like his Edgar Winner Dance Hall of the Dead and other praised novels. Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the tribal police work together here, trying...
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-109932-8
Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee investigate the murder of a fellow Navajo policeman. (Jan.)
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (319p) ISBN 978-0-06-017772-0
Location figures powerfully in Hillerman's newest novel, but it isn't the Southwest of his Navajo mysteries (Sacred Clowns, etc.), nor is this a Joe Leaphorn story. In April 1975, Moon Mathias, managing editor of a small-town Colorado newspaper,...
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Tony Hillerman, Author . HarperCollins $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-019445-1
"Don't look for a way to make money; find a way to make a living doing what you like to do anyway. Otherwise you're just raising ransom to buy your life back," said Barney Hillerman to his younger brother Tony, now in his 70s, a...
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Tony Hillerman, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-019443-7
Bestseller Hillerman's 16th Chee/ Leaphorn adventure offers deeper intrigue and a tighter plot than his previous entry, The Wailing Wind (2002), in this enduring series. When the body of an undercover agent, who's been looking for clues to...
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Tony Hillerman, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-06-056344-8
In MWA Grandmaster Hillerman's sterling 17th Chee/Leaphorn novel, a 1956 collision between passenger planes high above the Grand Canyon leaves a courier's arm and attached diamond-filled security case unaccounted for after almost half a...
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Tony Hillerman, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-056345-5
A picture cut from a glossy magazine, Luxury Living , draws retired Navajo tribal policeman Lt. Joe Leaphorn into a hunt for a soulless killer in bestseller Hillerman's enthralling 18th Leaphorn/Chee whodunit (after 2004's Skeleton Man )....
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (305p) ISBN 978-0-06-016767-7
Telling his story the Navajo way, Hillerman ( Coyote Waits ) fully develops the background of the cases pursued by Navajo Tribal Policemen, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, so that the resolutions--personal and professional--ring true with...
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (278p) ISBN 978-0-06-017581-8
The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman's 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee. Bubonic plague has survived for centuries in the prairie-dog villages of...
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Tony Hillerman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (275p) ISBN 978-0-06-019289-1
Picking up a new Hillerman book has the high comfort level of revisiting a favorite old Western hotel like the Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe or the Ahwani at Yosemite--the accommodations will always be first class and the scenery spectacular. Not that...
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Tony Hillerman, Author, Tony Hillerman, Read by HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52347-4
Correction: Due to an editing error, our review of Tony Hillerman's Seldom Disappointed (Forecasts, Sept. 24) erroneously stated that Hillerman's brother, Barry, died in WWII. In fact, he survived the war and lived for many decades. PW regrets...
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Tony Hillerman, Author, Ernie Bulow, Author, Ernest Franklin, Illustrator University of New Mexico Press $14.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-8263-3511-1
Originally self-published in somewhat different form as Words, Weather, and Wolfmen (1989), Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman, by Tony Hillerman and Ernie Bulow, will delight all fans of the creator of Jim Chee and Joe...
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Tony Hillerman, Author, George Guidall, Performed by HarperAudio $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52011-4
The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman's 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee. Bubonic plague has survived for centuries in the prairie-dog villages of...
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Tony Hillerman, Author, George Guidall, Performed by HarperAudio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52051-0
The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman's 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee. Bubonic plague has survived for centuries in the prairie-dog villages of...
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Tony Hillerman, Author, George Guidall, Performed by HarperAudio $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52057-2
Hillerman returns to his time-tested heroes, Navajo tribal police officers Sergeant Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (retired), for yet another satisfying mystery. For a listener, comfort comes with familiarity: the vivid sense of time and place
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