Anne Hillerman Books in Order

New edition of Tony Hillerman's classic collection of seventeen nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico, from bungled bank jobs to desert explorations, featuring a new foreword by Anne Hillerman and photographs that highlight the Land of Enchantment's humor, history, and everyday magic.

Family-friendly guide that opens with a child-focused history of Santa Fe, then points kids and parents toward museums, parks, hikes, seasonal events and day trips, including nearby pueblos and Albuquerque, with practical tips to make exploring the region fun for children.

Narrative nonfiction account of a daring trans-Atlantic gas balloon flight by Richard Abruzzo and Troy Bradley, following their journey from launch in the United States to landfall in Africa and the physical, technical, and weather challenges they face.

Comprehensive guidebook to Santa Fe and northern New Mexico that covers history, neighborhoods, museums, galleries, outdoor excursions, festivals, lodging, and restaurants, written from a local perspective for visitors and newcomers planning time in the City Different.

Drawing on her work as a restaurant critic, Hillerman profiles more than fifty Santa Fe eateries and their chefs, pairing short stories about each place with recipes so readers can discover local favorites and cook New Mexican dishes at home.

Photo-rich companion to Tony Hillerman's Navajo mysteries that pairs Anne Hillerman's essays with Don Strel's documentary images, offering synopses, quotes and travel notes for the New Mexico and Arizona locations that frame Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee's investigations.

Anne Hillerman’s text and Don Strel’s documentary photographs guide readers through the New Mexico and Arizona settings that shaped Tony Hillerman’s Chee and Leaphorn mysteries. The book connects the region’s landscapes, peoples, and history with the world behind the novels.

Visual tour of Santa Fe's private courtyards and public gardens, combining Don Strel's photography with Hillerman's text on desert plants, water-wise techniques and the challenges of creating lush, bird-friendly oases in a high-desert climate.

Hands-on science book for kids that uses simple experiments and crafts with household objects to show how sunlight can heat, move, and change everyday things, turning solar energy into an easy, playful part of learning.

A children’s activity guide that introduces solar energy through simple experiments and craft projects using the sun’s light and heat. Designed for home or classroom use, it helps young readers explore everyday applications of renewable energy with illustrated, hands-on activities.

Southwest map and field guide that pinpoints many of the real landscapes Tony Hillerman wrote about, with brief commentary from Anne Hillerman and Don Strel to help readers and travelers locate key canyons, mesas, trading posts and towns from the Leaphorn and Chee mysteries.

Over breakfast with fellow Navajo officers, Bernadette Manuelito sees her mentor, Lt. Joe Leaphorn, gunned down outside a restaurant and is barred from the case as an eyewitness. Refusing to stay on the sidelines, she and husband Jim Chee follow a cold trail that may explain the attack.

After Navajo police officer Bernadette Manuelito witnesses the shooting of a person close to her, rules bar her from the official inquiry. She and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, pursue connections between the attack and an old case involving retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn.

Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito hope a favor for a relative will double as a quick getaway, but separate assignments in Shiprock and Monument Valley pull them into a missing-woman case, a botched drug bust, suspicious fires and a controversial solar project on Navajo land.

During a brief getaway, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito are diverted into separate investigations. Chee follows clues surrounding a missing woman near Shiprock, while Bernie confronts the fallout from a botched drug bust, an isolated fire, and a disputed solar-development project.

When a car bomb explodes outside a high school basketball game, killing a young man, Bernadette Manuelito joins the investigation while Jim Chee is assigned to protect an attorney mediating a fierce fight over a Grand Canyon resort, where politics, profit and old grievances converge.

A car bomb at Shiprock High School initially appears tied to a contentious Grand Canyon development. Officers Bernadette Manuelito and Jim Chee trace the attack through fraught Hopi-Diné negotiations, while retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn sees signs that an old case may conceal a patient killer's revenge.

At a wilderness program for at-risk girls, Bernadette Manuelito confronts chaos: a missing instructor and a teen who claims to have found a cave full of bones. Searching the lava badlands and a linked cold case, Bernie faces human evil while Jim Chee juggles family trouble closer to home.

At a wilderness program for troubled teens near the Ramah Navajo Reservation, Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates after a girl finds human remains and a beloved instructor vanishes. The case connects to stolen artifacts, a long-ago Leaphorn investigation, and dangers in the volcanic El Malpais landscape.

Recovering from a head injury, retired lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is hired to find a missing ceremonial dress and silver bracelet donated to the Navajo Nation museum. When a young woman dies outside the library, he, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito uncover links to burglaries and fears of witchcraft.

Retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is hired to locate a missing traditional Navajo dress donated to the Navajo Nation, but the case turns deadly. At the same time, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito pursue burglaries and a homicide whose investigation becomes entangled with the FBI.

On a day that already includes serving a warrant, moving cattle and stumbling onto a crime scene, Bernadette Manuelito is asked to help find her former roommate Maya. After Maya confesses to killing her astronomer husband, Bernie doubts the story and follows a trail of secrets tied to the night sky.

Officer Bernadette Manuelito agrees to help a former roommate who confesses to killing a prominent astronomer. As Bernie tests the confession and searches for the truth, the case leads through deception, Navajo star stories, and a confrontation with a calculating killer.

Jim Chee's reflective trip to Antelope Canyon and Rainbow Bridge turns deadly when he discovers a Navajo rock-art enthusiast floating in Lake Powell, drawing him into questions of looted artifacts and sacred sites. Back in Shiprock, Bernadette Manuelito witnesses a deliberate hit-and-run that leads her into a dangerous cannabis operation on tribal land.

While taking leave near Lake Powell, Sergeant Jim Chee follows a decades-old sacred mystery linked to Joe Leaphorn and discovers a murdered Navajo artist. In Shiprock, Bernadette Manuelito investigates a deliberate hit-and-run that leads toward a dangerous criminal operation.

At Utah's Bears Ears, Bernadette Manuelito and Jim Chee confront the puzzling death of a paleontologist who froze near his car and a second killing staged as a home invasion. Fossil theft, blizzards and buried resentments leave both officers fighting to survive as they search for the truth.

Now a private investigator, Joe Leaphorn takes two cases: helping a school custodian find his missing singer wife and assisting an adoptee searching for her Navajo birth family. When an explosion devastates a reservation school, Leaphorn, Bernadette Manuelito and Jim Chee discover the mysteries are painfully connected.

Two parallel crises test the Navajo Nation. A fraudulent rehab center traps vulnerable patients, including a grandmother desperate to help her addicted grandson, while Bernadette Manuelito prepares for a high-profile visit and confronts radical environmental protesters targeting uranium extraction on tribal land, forcing hard choices about justice and safety.

Bernadette Manuelito and her sister Darleen expect a restorative visit to Canyon de Chelly, but become entangled in murder and deception. As Jim Chee investigates stolen Navajo horses and Joe Leaphorn pursues a missing-person case, the three investigations converge around dangerous questions of bloodlines and genetics.