Thief of Time

<p><strong>Don't miss the TV series <em>Dark Winds</em> based on the Leaphorn Chee & Manuelito novels now on AMC and AMC+! </strong></p><p><strong>All of Tony Hillerman's Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant but <em>A Thief of Time</em> is flat-out marvelous.--<em>USA Today</em></strong></p><p>From <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Tony Hillerman <em>A Thief of Time</em> is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.</p><p>At a moonlit Indian ruin where thieves of time ravage sacred ground in the name of profit a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling history-altering discovery. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones two corpses are discovered shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.</p><p>There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places and Navajo Tribal Policemen Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer. In his breakout novel Hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of murder--and offers a heart-rending example of love and forgiveness.</p><p> </p>