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

Tony Hillerman opens the mystery on Ship Rock, where climbers find a skull on a high basalt ledge. The novel draws Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee into the case when Joe Leaphorn links the bones to a rancher missing for eleven years.

The Navajo Tribal Police face fresh danger after a sniper ambushes an elderly canyon guide who saw the missing rancher alive. Hillerman follows Leaphorn and Chee through missing cattle and a forged summit register to uncover the truth on the mountain.


- Police Procedural Mysteries: Rookie officer Bernadette Manuelito tracks suspicious fence posts, turning routine livestock theft into a vital lead.
- Dual Timeline: A twenty-thousand-dollar corporate retainer sends Leaphorn digging into the old disappearance, as sniper fire erupts again on the canyon rim.
- Cultural Heritage: A Navajo veteran uses a surplus artillery spotting scope to record daily life beneath Ship Rock, logging details outsiders never expected anyone to keep.
- Also by This Author: BLESSING WAY, Dance Hall of the Dead and People of Darkness.