Navajo Fiction Author Tony Hillerman Dies At 83

googletrendwatch.com — Novelist Tony Hillerman died Sunday at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, The Associated Press reported. He was 83 and lived in Albuquerque. The cause was pulmonary failure, according to the AP report. Tony Hillerman is the author of a series of mysteries set in the Four Corners region of the Southwest and starring fictional Navajo Tribal Det.