She is mischievously abetted by a middle-aged female park ranger with an odd sense of humor. While Chee copes with fresh dead bodies in ancient burial grounds, Leaphorn deals with the white-eyes, fending off the advances of a gorgeous redheaded anthropologist (Dawn Lewis), colleague of the missing woman. Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi), who has no truck with tradition. Called to investigate are young, earnest Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach), an apprentice medicine man who follows the old ways, and world-weary Lt. In his breakout novel, Hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of murder-and offers a heart-rending example of love and forgiveness.A female anthropologist, who may or may not have been dealing in stolen pots from a civilization that pre-dates today’s surviving Indian tribes, comes up missing. There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places, and Navajo Tribal Policemen Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.
"All of Tony Hillerman's Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous."-USA Todayįrom New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.Īt a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit, a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
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