People of Darkness: A Leaphorn Chee Novel [Paperback]

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“Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself.”—Los Angeles Times

The fourth novel inNew York Timesbestselling author Tony Hillerman’s highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series.

A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. This chilling murder mystery launches a series of odd, inexplicable events, haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away.

A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. An assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision sired by greed and nourished by blood. And only one man will walk away.

He makes the desert come, alive. -Denver Post

Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself. -Los Angeles Times

“Hillerman deserves to be included in any list of the best living mystery writers.” -Dallas Morning News

Hillerman gets better with every book. -San Francisco Chronicle

Hillerman is an expert puzzle-maker. -The Atlantic

“Hillerman knows the value of suspense. He packs his scenes with tantalizing details, his detectives with intels#