Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “All of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous.”—USA Today From 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.

トニー・ヒラーマンの傑作である本作は、聖なる地を冒涜する「時間の泥棒」を通じ、ナバホの精神性と現代の欲望の衝突を鮮烈に描いています。論理的なリープホーンと伝統を尊ぶチーが織りなす魂の共鳴は、ミステリーを超えた文学的深みに満ち、読者を文明の根源的な問いへと誘います。 ドラマ版「ダーク・ウィンズ」が圧倒的な景観で魅了する一方、原作は言葉により沈黙や赦しの哲学を精緻に描き出します。映像の動的緊張感と小説の深遠な思索が響き合うことで、物語の真価が完成するのです。テキストでしか味わえない精神の旅路に、今こそ身を投じてください。