Stargazer (Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito Series #6)

by Anne Hillerman

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Anne Hillerman continues to dazzle in a series with characters originally created by the late Tony Hillerman. The southwest seeps through each page. A sense of place grounds us as we make our way through the scene of the crime.

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

Murder, deception, Navajo tradition, and the stars collide in this enthralling entry in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, set amid the beautiful landscape of the American Southwest.

What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya’s struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya’s brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister.

Tracing Maya’s whereabouts, Bernie learns that her old friend had confessed to the murder of her estranged husband, a prominent astronomer. But the details don’t align. Suspicious, Bernie takes a closer look at the case only to find that nothing is as it seems. Uncovering new information about the astronomer’s work leads Bernie to a remote spot on the Navajo Nation and a calculating killer.

The investigation causes an unexpected rift with her husband and new acting boss, Jim Chee, who’s sure Bernie’s headed for trouble. While she’s caught between present and past, Chee is at a crossroads of his own. Burdened with new responsibilities he didn’t ask for and doesn’t want, he must decide what the future holds for him and act accordingly. 

Can their mentor Joe Leaphorn—a man also looking at the past for answers to the future—provide the guidance both Bernie and Chee need? And will the Navajo heroes that stud the starry sky help them find justice—and the truth they seek?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062908353
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	04/13/2021
Series:	Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito Series , #6
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	6,737
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

ANNE HILLERMAN is the bestselling author of the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series. The Sacred Bridge is her seventh novel in the series, which was created by her father, Tony Hillerman. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is at work on her next novel.

Editorial Reviews

Tony Hillerman fans will appreciate her keeping his fictional creations, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, alive and thriving. The storytelling gene has been proudly passed on from father to daughter.” — Bookreporter

"Anne Hillerman’s taken familiar characters and locations and struck out on a literary legacy all her own.” — Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Series

“A must-read for anyone who loved the great Tony Hillerman novels.” — Douglas Preston,  #1 New York Times bestselling author

From the Publisher

Tony Hillerman fans will appreciate her keeping his fictional creations, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, alive and thriving. The storytelling gene has been proudly passed on from father to daughter.

Bookreporter

"Anne Hillerman’s taken familiar characters and locations and struck out on a literary legacy all her own.

Craig Johnson

A must-read for anyone who loved the great Tony Hillerman novels.

Douglas Preston

Hillerman seamlessly blends tribal lore and custom into a well-directed plot, continuing in the spirit of her late father, Tony, by keeping his characters (like Chee) in the mix, but still establishing Manuelito as the main player in what has become a fine legacy series.

Booklist on Song of the Lion

Anne Hillerman weaves a wonderful dark tapestry of intrigue.” 

Providence Journal on The Tale Teller

The Tale Teller is more than just a police procedural set in the Southwest, it’s a reading experience not to be missed. Anne Hillerman has reached a new level of storytelling in this one, and she deserves recognition as one of the finest mystery authors currently working in the genre.

New York Journal of Books 

11/01/2020

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