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Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases involving a missing woman and a drug bust gone bad.
Author
Series
Leaphorn and Chee volume 4
Language
English
Description
Officer Jim Chee is drawn into his Navajo heritage as he investigates the bizarre theft of a box of trinkets -- a theft that endangers his life as well as the life of a young schoolteacher.
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Series
Language
English
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Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a council woman 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 Pueblo ceremony, Chee spots
...4) Skeleton man
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
5) Stargazer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito-serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene-takes an unexpected twist when she's called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya's struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya's brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister. Tracing Maya's whereabouts,...
Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 5
Language
English
Description
Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive. Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been...
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
10) Song of the lion
Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
While investigating a car bomb meant for a mediator for a development planned at the Grand Canyon, tribal police officers Manuelito, Chee, and their mentor Lieutenant Leaphorn piece together clues that link the bombing to a cold case and a very patient killer with a long-range plot for revenge.
Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 7
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
12) The first eagle
Author
Series
Leaphorn and Chee volume 13
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee searches for the killer of a fellow policeman while a biologist hunts for the key to the most virulent form of bubonic plague since the Middle Ages.
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Series
Language
English
Description
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing seems to have been taken? Why was he murdered? The Bears Ears...
14) The sinister pig
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle. Why did the Washington office of the FBI snatch custody of this case from its local agents, cover it with secrecy, and call it a hunting accident? What was the victim seeking among the maze of pipelines and pumping stations...
15) Hunting badger
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the FBI ineptly pursues three cop killers, Joe Leaphorn uncovers a pattern linked to an ancient Indian legend, while Sergeant Jim Chee discovers a fatal flaw in the official theory about the crime.
16) Dark wind
Author
Series
Jim Chee volume 2
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events lead him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?
17) Cave of bones
Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series. When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned...
18) Lost birds
Author
Series
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 9
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client’s adoption was questionable, and...
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