Annal:1989 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Thief of Time: A Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novel
- 1989 Macavity-Novel winner
- Score: 10.39
A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where “thieves of time” ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
