Fiction. Mystery. The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human. The solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man's secrets and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn's investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible - and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.

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"Hillerman's mysteries are special . . . Listening Woman is among the best."— Washington Post

The third novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series.

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.

Now the solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man's secrets—and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn's investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.

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The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold of a solution-and is greeted with the most violent confrontation of his career.

Native American policeman Joe Leaphorn probes the murder of an old Indian soothsayer and a young Indian girl, and ends up investigating the strange kidnapping of a group of Boy Scouts and evading a plot on his own life.

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.

A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.

When an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered, Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is called in to investigate the murders.

Listening Woman

Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks down the murderer of an old man.

Lt. Leaphorn's investigation into the brutal murders of an old man and teenage girl carries him to a conspiracy that stretches back more than 100 years

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police investigates the murders of an elderly man and a teenage girl, as well as the blind Listening Woman's visions of ghosts and witches, and uncovers an evil that is all too human in origin.

A fistful of investigations have Leaphorn working against the clock: a hit-and-run attempt; two people bludgeoned to death during a Navajo medicine ceremony; a bank robbery; and a militant American Indian terrorist group called the Buffalo Society.

Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Leaphorn's murder investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years.

The author mixes his inimitable blend of authentic Indian lore and suspense to create a mystery full of tension and atmosphere.

In the third novel of Tony Hillerman's celebrated Leaphorn and Chee series, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police steps up to the plate again to solve a mystery that involves not only knowing the Navajo people, but also knowing how cold-blooded killers think.

Navajo Tribal Policeman Lt. Joe Leaphorn investigates the dual murder of an old soothsayer and a young girl, the bizarre kidnapping of a boy scout troop, and attempts on his own life. Police procedural.

A sick old man and a young girl are murdered on a remote corner of the Navajo Reservation. There's an eyewitness--of sorts: a blind Listening Woman who was attending the old man. As Lt. Leaphorn digs into the crime, he draws together the murder with a series of seemingly unrelated incidents, including an attempted hit-and-run and a stolen helicopter, into a quest to catch the killer...

A policeman investigates the murder of an old Indian soothsayer.

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