num_pages: 331
description: 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. At an ancient burial site, 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 as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer.
language: English
title: A Thief of Time
titlecomplete: A Thief of Time (Navajo Mysteries, #8)
characters: Capt. Largo, Jim Chee, Richard DuMont, Slick Nakai, Pete Etcitty, Harrison Houk, Maxie Davis, Joe Leaphorn, Randy Elliott, Eleanor Friedman-Bernal
genres: American, Detective, Thriller, Native Americans, Novels, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Westerns, Fiction
ratings_count: 13464
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: G. K. Hall & Company