Un giovane di una tribù hopi, nel New Mexico, si caccia in un guaio molto più grande di lui quando cerca di impegnare per pochi dollari un diamante e viene accusato di aver partecipato a una rapina a mano armata terminata con la morte del gioielliere. Il ragazzo sostiene di aver ricevuto la pietra preziosa da un vecchio eremita incontrato nel Grand Canyon. Il tenente Joe Leaphorn, ormai in pensione dalla Navajo Tribal Police, e il suo vecchio collega Jim Chee credono nell’innocenza del giovane. Insieme si imbatteranno in una storia di cinquant’anni prima: uno spaventoso disastro aereo, un commerciante di gioielli diretto a New York dalla fidanzata incinta, una contesa eredità miliardaria. Ma nello sconfinato Ovest americano tutto è permesso e ci sono uomini disposti a tutto pur di impedire che la verità venga alla luce.
Tony Hillerman Libri
Tony Hillerman è stato un veterano di guerra decorato e un giornalista le cui opere hanno spesso esplorato profonde questioni culturali e morali attraverso avvincenti narrazioni di mistero ambientate in un paesaggio unico. La sua scrittura è stata caratterizzata da un'attenta caratterizzazione e da una profondità atmosferica che ha attirato i lettori in intricati enigmi, offrendo al contempo uno spaccato sulla vita e le tradizioni del West americano. Hillerman ha intrecciato magistralmente la suspense del genere giallo con riflessioni più profonde sulla natura umana e sulle sfide sociali, guadagnandosi un ampio riconoscimento.







Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn & Chee Novels
Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Coyote Waits
Presents three mystery novels featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, including "Skinwalkers," "A Thief of Time," and "Coyote Waits."
Skeleton Man. Der Skelett-Mann, englische Ausgabe
- 320pagine
 - 12 ore di lettura
 
In 1956, an airplane crash left the remains of 172 passengers scattered among the majestic cliffs of the Grand Canyon—including an arm attached to a briefcase containing a fortune in gems. Half a century later, one of the missing diamonds has reappeared . . . and the wolves are on the scent. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is coming out of retirement to help exonerate a slow, simple kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the diamond he tried to pawn from a mysterious old man in the canyon, and his story has attracted the dangerous attention of strangers to the Navajo lands—one more interested in a severed limb than in the fortune it was handcuffed to; another willing to murder to keep lost secrets hidden. But nature herself may prove the deadliest adversary, as Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee follow a puzzle—and a killer—down into the dark realm of Skeleton Man.
Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own. Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up in the most perplexing--and deadly--criminal manhunt of their lives.
Renowned author Tony Hillerman's original essays written for "New Mexico" and "Rio Grande, " plus two new essays, are complemented by the extraordinary images of Muench and Reynolds.
A New Omnibus of Crime
- 412pagine
 - 15 ore di lettura
 
This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers left off, bringing together monumental, important,and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the twenty-first century.
The Ghostway
- 201pagine
 - 8 ore di lettura
 
Old Joseph Joe sees it all, Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is enough to send Tribal Policeman Jim Chee after a killer . . . and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost, to the dark underbelly of L.A., to a healing ceremony whose cure could be death.
A thief of time
- 334pagine
 - 12 ore di lettura
 
When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the truth.



