Lost Birds continues the Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito series that Anne Hillerman inherited from her father, Tony, and has made unmistakably her own. Here the now-retired Joe Leaphorn takes a case involving a woman searching for her birth family, while Bernadette Manuelito faces a dangerous fire investigation. Anne Hillerman has been widely credited with bringing Bernie Manuelito to the foreground, giving the long-running saga a Navajo woman at its center and deepening its sense of family, landscape, and Diné life.
This is a 2024 HarperCollins first edition, first printing, its number line running cleanly down to one. The jacket pairs the series' Southwestern border design with a brooding image of twin rock spires beneath a sky of birds, and a band notes the AMC adaptation Dark Winds drawn from the novels. A fresh first printing of a current Hillerman is a fine, contemporary addition to a Southwestern shelf.
First Edition, first printing (2024)
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| Author | Anne Hillerman |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Year | 2024 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-334478-5 |
| Edition | First Edition, first printing (2024) |
| Condition | Hardcover in dust jacket, near-fine. |
| Topic | New Mexico / Navajo mystery fiction |
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