Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction, best known for his mysteries featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Dance Hall of the Dead and Skinwalkers are two entries in that Leaphorn and Chee series. Several of Hillerman's works were later adapted for film and television, including the AMC series Dark Winds. He died in 2008.