Leaphorn & Chee Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.