Song of the Lion

A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

By: Anne Hillerman

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!

New York Times Bestseller

“Fans of Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito, characters created by the author’s father, Tony Hillerman, will savor this multilayered story of suspense, with its background of contemporary environmental vs. development issues.” — Library Journal

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman’s Daughter and Rock with Wings.

When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon.

But what seems like an act of ecoterrorism turns out to be something far more nefarious. Piecing together the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a scheme to disrupt the negotiations and inflame tensions between the Hopi and Dine tribes.

Retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn has seen just about everything in his long career. As the tribal police’s investigation unfolds, he begins to suspect that the bombing may be linked to a cold case he handled years ago. As he, Bernadette, and Chee carefully pull away the layers behind the crime, they make a disturbing discovery: a meticulous and very patient killer with a long-simmering plan of revenge.

Writing with a clarity and grace that is all her own, Anne Hillerman depicts the beauty and mystery of Navajo Country and the rituals, myths, and customs of its people in a mystery that builds on and complements the beloved, bestselling mysteries of her acclaimed father, Tony Hillerman.

Chee and Bernie do it again!!!!

I love Ms Hillerman's books. Her father is my favorite author , and she has the same story lines as her father. They are wonderful stories of the Native Americans way of life who are my ancestors.
And Ms Delaine is a fantastic narrator!!!

She's as good as her dad.

I really like these books. She's hitting her stride and I am so glad she decided to follow her father and keep the characters alive. I'm a fan. Kudos to the narrator, she brings the characters to life.

Grateful to have more Chee and Leaphorn stories.

The new stories are well written. The narration is sometimes annoying. I appreciate that she learned to pronounce First Nation words. It reminded me of studying The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. But the way the narrator distinguished young and old, male and female, white and Native speakers was sometimes reminiscent of high school plays. I missed the Narrator from the Tony Hillerman audio books.

Very Authentic

I enjoyed this story. Not really a cliff hanger, but solid. She does write a lot like her father.

Daughter does her father proud

Anne Hillerman is continuing her father’s legacy of impressively written suspense and very human novels around the lives of people who I had already gotten to know through Tony Hillerman. I’m about to start my third one of hers. I hope she keeps this up. The narrator is superb