Tony Hillerman, Novelist, Dies at 83 Mr. Hillerman’s evocative novels, which describe people struggling to maintain ancient traditions in the modern world, touched millions of readers, who made ...

Writer Tony Hillerman, best known for his mysteries set among the Navajo tribe in the Southwest, died Oct. 26. He was 83 years old. Hillerman's 18 novels were evocative of a place and culture that ...

Adapted from Tony Hillerman 's Navajo police novel, Skinwalkers is "the first Native American mystery ever produced for television," Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of Mystery, told television ...

Tony Hillerman, the 83-year-old mystery novelist who used the Southwest as a setting and whose two best-remembered characters were Navajo police officers, has died.

The 1970s-set police procedural, based on the crime novels by Tony Hillerman, is also a moody and atmospheric psychological thriller that takes advantage of its dusty Southwest setting.