num_pages: 324
description: “All of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous.”—USA TodayFrom New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.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.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. 
language: English
title: A Thief of Time
titlecomplete: A Thief of Time (Leaphorn & Chee, #8)
characters: Randy Elliott, Slick Nakai, Jim Chee, Capt. Largo, Richard DuMont, Joe Leaphorn, Eleanor Friedman-Bernal, Maxie Davis, Pete Etcitty, Harrison Houk
genres: Crime, Native Americans, American, Novels, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Westerns, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 13469
series: Leaphorn & Chee
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: HarperTorch