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Where Skeleton Man sits
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- Book 17 of Leaphorn and Chee. See all Leaphorn and Chee books in order
- The book before
- The Sinister Pig
- The book after
- The Shape Shifter
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- Last checked: September 25, 2026, against harpercollins.com
What Skeleton Man is about
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- Billy Tuve, a small-time thief, tries to sell a diamond to a pawnshop, and Joe Leaphorn, long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, comes back to look into what seems a simple robbery. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
small-time thief Billy Tuve tries to pawn a diamond ... Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement
- The trail soon reaches back half a century, to a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon carrying a passenger who had a case of diamonds. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
back fifty years, to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon ... a case of diamonds
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Genres
Topics
- Aircraft accidents
- Indian reservation police
- Jim Chee
- Leaphorn, Joe, Lt
- Navajo Indians
- Police
Places
- New Mexico
Reading ages
- Adult
Other books in Leaphorn and Chee
18 books listed so far
- Book 1: The Blessing Way
- Book 2: Dance Hall of the Dead
- Book 3: Listening Woman
- Book 4: People of Darkness
- Book 5: The Dark Wind
- Book 6: The Ghostway
- Book 7: Skinwalkers
- Book 8: A Thief of Time
- Book 9: Talking God
- Book 10: Coyote Waits
- Book 11: Sacred Clowns
- Book 12: The Fallen Man
- Book 13: The First Eagle
- Book 14: Hunting Badger
- Book 15: The Wailing Wind
- Book 16: The Sinister Pig
- Book 18: The Shape Shifter
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