Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!

The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee series—an electrifying thriller of revenge, secrets, and murder.

"One of the best of the series."—New York Times Book Review

Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers

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A skeleton found on a ledge of a sacred mountain believed to be the remains of Harold Breedlove, a ranching heir who disappeared years earlier, throws retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn and acting Lt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, back together in an attempt to solve decade-old case.

Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and continues to haunt him.

When the body of an undercover agent, who's been looking for clues to the whereabouts of billions of dollars missing from the Tribal Trust Funds, turns up on reservation property near Four Corners, Navajo cop Sgt. Jim Chee and Cowboy Dashee, a Hopi with the Federal Bureau of Land Management, investigate.

Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police are united in a murder investigation that leads them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft.

Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases. Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them — one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument...

"Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact--a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware--witchcraft...

Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement when Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide--a case with loose ends that has been troubling Leaphorn for years.

"What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito--serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene--takes an unexpected twist when she's called to help find an old friend"--Provided by publisher.

Sergeant Jim Chee tries to prove the innocence of a simpleminded kid accused of robbing a trading post which requires finding the remains of an airline disaster victim. As Joe Leaphorn investigates the crime, the race is on by different parties to find the body of the passenger who had handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in diamonds.