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.

"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Din�etah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Din�etah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying...

A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

An investigation of the murder of a tribal policeman leads to a historical find worth a fortune.

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...

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.

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.

A body is found beside the railway track in the deserts of New Mexico with a note in the pocket bearing the location of an old woman and an obscure Navajo ceremony, Yeibichai or "Talking God". There is also the name of Henry Highhawk, a sinister campaigner for Navajo rights.

Ella Clah, an investigator with the tribal police, is overwhelmed with suspects when a series of murders claims the lives of some of the Navajo people's most revered wise men, and with a dearth of clues, she must rely on her instincts to flush out the real killer.