People of Darkness
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4.4 • 248 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
“Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself.”— Los Angeles Times
The fourth novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman’s highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series.
A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away.
Customer Reviews
Masterful southwestern tale of intrigue
Another top notch Hillerman, who captures the beauty of the southwest and the depths of the soul.
People Of Darkness. Tony Hillerman
Detective Sergeant Jim Cree is a Navajo Tribal Police is detective investigating a bizarre case . The wife of a local white tycoon asks Jim to investigate and recover a box of her husbands trinkets forcibly removed from a wall safe in their house. She accuses the box was stolen by a man named Tomas Charley who is the third generation in a family of leaders of a peyote cult “the people of darkness.” Assisting him in his investigation is a young white school teacher named Mary. Also there is a hired white assassin with a troubled past as well. What unfolds is an excellent read of dark secrets, homicides and stolen dead body. Non stop action and suspense. Enjoyed immensely!!
So Much More to the Navajo Way Than TV Can Ever Touch
The recent Dark Wind Netflix series isn’t even a Cliff Notes approximation of Tony Hillerman’s wonderful series.
Coming late to the books (thank you Netflix) I am joyfully gorging on the complete series from first to last.