Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman
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Anne Hillerman is an American journalist from New Mexico, and a New York Times best-selling author. The daughter of novelist Tony Hillerman, she continued her father's series of Joe Leaphorn-Jim Chee novels following his death. She is the daughter of novelist Tony Hillerman and his wife Marie Unzner, and was married to photographer Don Strel who died in 2020.
Anne has served as arts editor and editorial page editor, as well as writer, for The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper and the Albuquerque Journal. Her first books were primarily about travel, local New Mexico points of interest, and restaurants. She and Strel collaborated on Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes and Gardens of Santa Fe.
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Anne Hillerman is widely recognized for continuing her father Tony Hillerman's popular Leaphorn and Chee mystery series, set in the Navajo Nation. She has successfully maintained the spirit and setting of the original series while developing the characters further.
To follow the ongoing narrative, readers should start with "Spider Woman's Daughter," which is her first novel in the Leaphorn and Chee series, and then continue with subsequent titles in publication order. These books build upon the established characters and their evolving relationships.














