![]() ![]() His wife, Emma, recently had brain surgery for a cancerous tumor she didn’t survive the surgery. Although they have different worldviews, Joe and Jim work well together. Jim is very traditional when he’s not busy with police detective work, he’s studying to become a healer. He doesn’t follow many of the Navajo traditions, which brings him into conflict with some of his own people-including Jim. Free-spirited by nature, Joe loves police detective work because he can use his own ingenuity to solve crimes. Officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee work for the Navajo Tribal Police. Prior to his death in 2008, he was an international bestselling author. In 1996, he was ranked as New Mexico’s 25th Wealthiest Man. Hillerman served as a mortarman in the 103rd Infantry Division during World War II, during which time he earned numerous medals. The book, a popular installment in the long-standing series, won the 1989 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel. Tony Hillerman’s mystery novel A Thief of Time, the eighth book in the Leaphorn & Chee series, follows detectives hunting for a missing anthropologist and precious artifacts. ![]()
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