People of Darkness

Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is drawn into a case that begins with a dying man's murder and a wealthy woman willing to pay three thousand dollars to recover a box of rocks. As Chee pulls the threads, he follows them into the Navajo concept of the Bad Country and toward an assassin protecting a secret that has been guarded for three decades. Tony Hillerman's fourth Leaphorn and Chee novel deepens his portrait of the Southwest and the spiritual logic that shapes Chee's investigation.

George Guidall brings the silence and severity of New Mexico to every chapter. His narration never overstates the landscape's menace, allowing the desert setting to press in gradually the way it does in the novel itself. Guidall's understanding of Hillerman's pace, which moves like a man tracking across hard country, makes this a richly immersive audio experience at just over seven hours.