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Auf den staubigen Pfaden der Black Mesa wird eine Leiche im Unterholz entdeckt, Hände und Füße geschunden. Kurz darauf wird Officer Jim Chee vor den Umrissen des Low Mountain Zeuge eines nächtlichen Flugzeugabsturzes. Eigentlich soll Chee nur einen Fall von Vandalismus aufklären, und dem zunehmenden Gerede um Hexerei in der Gegend nachgehen. Doch am Flugzeugwrack findet er etliche Spuren, die dem FBI entgangen sind. Als er den Hinweisen nachgeht, wird er vom Verfolger zum Verfolgten. Ein dunkler Wind treibt Gier und Gewalt über den Südwesten im zweiten Fall für Jim Chee.

Zu seiner Überraschung wird der junge Officer Jim Chee beim FBI angenommen, doch eigentlich will er bei der Navajo-Police bleiben und sich gleichzeitig zum rituellen Singer ausbilden lassen. Während er über einer Entscheidung brütet, wird er mit den Ermittlungen in einem scheinbar unbedeutenden Diebstahl beauftragt, für den sich aber auffällig viele Leute interessieren. Chees Nachforschungen führen ihn zu einer dreißig Jahre alten Vision und einer mysteriösen Gruppe, die sich »Volk der Finsternis« nennt.

Bei einer Verkehrskontrolle entgeht Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn von der Navajo-Police nur knapp einem Mordversuch. Während er sich bemüht, den flüchtigen Täter ausfindig zu machen, wird ihm ein neuer Fall übertragen: ein Doppelmord in einem abgelegenen Hogan. Die alte Margaret Cigaret will ihn in einer Vision vorhergesehen haben. Leaphorn folgt den verschlungenen Wegen der beiden Fälle und findet sich bald in einem Labyrinth aus Täuschungen, Widersprüchen und Geheimnissen wieder – ein Labyrinth, das ihn in eine gefährliche Richtung zwingt.

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn von der Navajo-Police ermittelt im zerklüfteten Canyon Country, beschattet von den scharfkantigen Felsen des Corn-Mountain-Massivs. Aus den Angelegenheiten der benachbarten Zuñi hält er sich eigentlich raus. Als aber zusammen mit dem jungen Zuñi Ernesto auch dessen bester Freund George, ein Navajo, verschwindet, wird Leaphorn hinzugezogen. Die beiden Jungen waren fasziniert von den Ritualen des Zuñi-Volkes und deren rachsüchtigen Göttern. Die aber, so heißt es, zeigen sich nur jenen, denen der Tod seine Aufwartung macht.

This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must listen for anyone looking to understand the state's unique charm. The engaging pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery unveil the life and magic one experiences in the Land of Enchantment.

A Zuni Indian boy dies in a bizarre ritual slaying - and his best friend, a Navajo youth, is missing. Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn tracks the friend from Zuni village to Navajo hogan, from anthropological dig to hippie commune, across the desert of New Mexico and Arizona.

Joe Leaphorn, tenente della polizia tribale, è chiamato a indagare sul brutale omicidio di un vecchio e di una sedicenne navajo. È un caso che ricorda bene, perché sembra sfuggire a ogni logica: gli agenti dell’FBI e del Bureau of Indian Aff airs che se ne sono occupati tre mesi prima non sono riusciti a individuare un colpevole e men che meno a ipotizzare un movente plausibile. L’unica testimone, un’anziana sciamana cieca chiamata Donna che Ascolta, che ha parlato di stregoni e spiriti inquieti e di un essere malvagio che è stato sguinzagliato sulla terra, non è stata giudicata credibile.

Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall, seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend's corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide... and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden.

Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected - and that others are pusuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilous arena of superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods.

A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a councilwoman 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 the boy. Then, suddenly, the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue, Chee and Leaphorn must follow a serpentine trail through the Indian clans and nations, seeking the thread that links two brutal murders, a missing teenager, a band of lobbyists trying to put a toxic dump site on Pueblo land, and an invaluable memento given to the tribes.

Though he’s officially retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn occasionally helps his former colleagues Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito crack particularly puzzling crimes. But there is that rare unsolved investigation that haunts every lawman, including the legendary Leaphorn. Joe still hasn’t let go of his “last case”—a mystery involving a priceless Navajo rug that was supposedly destroyed in a fire. Nine years later, what looks like the same one-of-a-kind rug turns up in a magazine spread, and the man who showed Joe the photo has gone missing.

Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands.

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality.