People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman

People of Darkness

A Leaphorn & Chee Novel

Tony Hillerman

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · July 24, 2018

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself.”— Los Angeles Times The fourth novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman’s highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series.

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Themes
Murder and mystery, Greed, Survival
Genres
Police Procedurals, Indigenous Fiction, Westerns
Published
HarperCollins, July 24, 2018

Who it’s for

  • For readers drawn to chilling murder mysteries
  • For readers interested in Navajo Tribal Police investigations

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About this book

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself.”— Los Angeles Times The fourth novel in New York Times bestselling 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.

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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.

Where it sits

Westerns57%
Police Procedurals49%
Indigenous Fiction43%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Police Procedurals
  • British Mystery
  • Historical Mystery
  • International Crime Fiction
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  • Police & Law-Enforcement Romance
  • Suspense
  • Crime Fiction
  • Westerns
Authors
Tony Hillerman
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
July 24, 2018
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Murder and mystery · Greed · Survival
Reading lane
Police Procedurals