Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee - Book 9
Talking God
“Woven as tightly as a Navajo blanket.”
Newsweek
A New York Times bestseller
A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman comes one of his most clever mysteries featuring Leaphorn & Chee who find themselves working two very different cases—only to discover they’re inextricably linked.
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 pursuing 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.
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