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Leaphorn & Chee Series

28 primary works � 35 total works
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Navajo tribal police officers in the southwest USA. Series has been taken over by author's daughter, Anne Hillerman, after his death.

Book 1

The Blessing Way
4.01
· 29950 Ratings · 1735 Reviews · published 1970 · 87 editions
Alternate cover edition can be found here.

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Book 2

Dance Hall of the Dead
4.04
· 17898 Ratings · 983 Reviews · published 1973 · 94 editions
Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin a�
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Book 3

Listening Woman
4.13
· 16060 Ratings · 694 Reviews · published 1978 · 14 editions
The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of �
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Book 4

People of Darkness
4.16
· 11413 Ratings · 606 Reviews · published 1980 · 73 editions
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Book 5

The Dark Wind
4.13
· 11750 Ratings · 541 Reviews · published 1981 · 76 editions
A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped"�
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Book 6

The Ghostway
4.12
· 12329 Ratings · 422 Reviews · published 1984 · 73 editions
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Book 7

Skinwalkers
4.09
· 15029 Ratings · 652 Reviews · published 1986 · 82 editions
Navajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee and Lieutena�
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Book 8

A Thief of Time
4.12
· 14816 Ratings · 746 Reviews · published 1988 · 93 editions
“All of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo tribal police nove�
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Book 9

Talking God
4.07
· 9906 Ratings · 477 Reviews · published 1989 · 81 editions
A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal �
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Book 10

Coyote Waits
4.06
· 12372 Ratings · 441 Reviews · published 1990 · 69 editions
The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman D�
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Book 11

Sacred Clowns
4.05
· 9967 Ratings · 442 Reviews · published 1993 · 87 editions
First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure b�
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Book 12

The Fallen Man
4.13
· 8976 Ratings · 483 Reviews · published 1996 · 71 editions
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hiller�
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Book 13

The First Eagle
4.09
· 7735 Ratings · 426 Reviews · published 1998 · 56 editions
When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher hu�
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Book 14

Hunting Badger
4.07
· 9388 Ratings · 452 Reviews · published 1999 · 60 editions
Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute �
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Book 15

The Wailing Wind
4.11
· 8555 Ratings · 436 Reviews · published 2002 · 52 editions

Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man sl�

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Book 16

The Sinister Pig
3.96
· 7972 Ratings · 500 Reviews · published 2003 · 33 editions
Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is t�
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Book 17

Skeleton Man
4.02
· 9037 Ratings · 533 Reviews · published 2004 · 57 editions
In 1956, an airplane crash left the remains of 172�
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Book 18

The Shape Shifter
4.04
· 9871 Ratings · 588 Reviews · published 2006 · 47 editions
7 hours 10 minutes
Since his retirement from the Na�
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Book 19

Spider Woman's Daughter
4.03
· 15395 Ratings · 1950 Reviews · published 2013 · 20 editions
It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with �
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Book 20

Rock with Wings
3.95
· 11292 Ratings · 1249 Reviews · published 2015 · 25 editions
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manueli�
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Book 21

Song of the Lion
4.09
· 9497 Ratings · 989 Reviews · published 2017 · 11 editions
Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the�
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Book 22

Cave of Bones
4.03
· 9201 Ratings · 956 Reviews · published 2018 · 16 editions
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Book 23

The Tale Teller
4.17
· 8628 Ratings · 879 Reviews · published 2019 · 16 editions
Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn�
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Book 24

Stargazer
4.21
· 8950 Ratings · 817 Reviews · published 2021 · 2 editions
Murder, deception, Navajo tradition, and the stars�
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Book 25

The Sacred Bridge
4.21
· 7580 Ratings · 666 Reviews · published 2022 · 11 editions
"A fine legacy series . . . in the spirit of her l�
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Book 26

The Way of the Bear
4.17
· 7287 Ratings · 568 Reviews · published 2023 · 7 editions
Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected l�
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Book 27

Lost Birds
4.25
· 6384 Ratings · 527 Reviews · published 2024 · 9 editions
“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York �
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Book 28

Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
4.42
· 570 Ratings · 33 Reviews · published 2025 · 6 editions
“Anne Hillerman deserves recognition as one of the�
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Book 1-3

The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries: The Blessing Way / Dance Hall of the Dead / Listening Woman
Part of a series of Joe Leaphorn Mysteries. Old, b�
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Book 4-6

Three Jim Chee Mysteries: People of Darkness / The Dark Wind / The Ghostway
In People of Darkness, Hillerman's first novel to �
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Book 7-9

Leaphorn & Chee: Skinwalkers / A Thief of Time / Talking God
4.54
· 124 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 8 editions
Three classic Tony Hillerman mysteries in one volu�
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Book 7, 9

The Tony Hillerman Audio Collection: Skinwalkers / Talking God
Against the sublime beauty of the American southwe�
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Book 10-12

Le coyotte attend / Les clowns sacrés / Un homme est tombé
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Book 12-13

Tony Hillerman Boxed Gift Set: The Fallen Man, The First Eagle
Hundreds of thousands of devoteeswill cheer the re�
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Book 12-14

Leaphorn, Chee, and More: The Fallen Man / The First Eagle / Hunting Badger
Now available for the first time in one volume are�
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