The Shape Shifter - Tony Hillerman

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Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is back in this latest tale of murder and mystery from a New York Times bestselling author. With Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito on their honeymoon, Joes left on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he thought impossible to solve. Available in a tall Premium Edition. nRetirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed, and now the friend who brought it to Leaphorn's attention has mysteriously gone missing.With newly wedded officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito just back from their honeymoon, the legendary ex-lawman is on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he'd once thought impossible to untangle. And they're leading him back into a world of lethal greed, shifting truths, and changing faces, where a cold-blooded killer still resides. nNew York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, whom the New York Times Book Review calls “a wonderful storyteller” is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has been called on occasionally by his former colleagues to help them solve a puzzling crime. And Leaphorn, aided by Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time, the problem is with an old case of Joe's--his “last case,” unsolved and haunting him. And with Chee and Bernie on their honeymoon, Leaphorn is on his own. The case involved a priceless Navajo rug gone missing. Now, years later, Leaphorn is picking up the threads of a crime he'd thought impossible to solve. Hillerman is at the top of his form in this atmospheric and stunning novel. nNew York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, whom the New York Times Book Review calls “a wonderful storyteller” is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has been called on occasionally by his former colleagues to help them solve a puzzling crime. And Leaphorn, aided by Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers.