Skeleton Man

In 1956, two airliners crashed over the Grand Canyon, killing 172 people and leaving their remains scattered along the Canyon. In Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman has created a novel based off the event and set nearly fifty years later. This is the seventeenth novel in the series, featuring Lieutenant J......more

She peered at her desk calendar, looked up again at the once-legendary lieutenant, and said, "And you are...?" A knife-to-the-heart question when delivered in a building where one has worked most of one's adult life, given orders, hired people, and become modestly famous for a mile or two in every di......more

Tony Hillerman has been recognized and lauded for his storytelling of the American Southwest. The foundation for all of that has been the tales of the Navaho police involving Joe Leaphorn, and then, Jim Chee. This tale includes some of the other familiar characters: Bernie Manuelito (now to be marrie......more

Tony Hillerman used to be one of my favorite authors, but he did that thing a lot of authors do with long-running series: said he was done writing Leaphorn/Chee mysteries, but then kept writing them. After the stinker that was The Sinister Pig, I was almost afraid to read Skeleton Man, since it's th......more

I promised myself after I retired that I would go back and reread all of the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee novels in the order that they were written. This book involves an airplane crash over the Grand Canyon, missing diamonds and proof that a child was a direct descendant due a large inheritance. Chee, Le......more