This long-awaited new novel from the author of such blockbuster bestsellers as Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time is Tony Hillerman at his best. In a taught and richly woven mystery set in the Navajo Southwest, Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee unravel the treacherous web of tribal politics that connects two murders.
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This long-awaited new novel from the author of such blockbuster bestsellers as Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time is Tony Hillerman at his best. In a taught and richly woven mystery set in the Navajo Southwest, Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee unravel the treacherous web of tribal politics that connects two murders.
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The service was excellent, and, of course, I love the book. I knew I would already because I have yet to read a book by Tony Hillerman that I don't love.
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Apr 19, 2008
Another great story
In this book Lt. Joe Leaphorn has not yet retired from the Navajo tribal police, and officer Jim Chee has been working for the lieutenant for only one week. Hillerman weaves a story of a hit-and-run of a pedestrian (who dies) and two other murders that happen within a day of one another, although over twenty miles apart, with a tribal ceremony, a mission school, a group wanting to use an old abandoned mine on the Navajo reservation for a toxic dump site, a love story between Chee and a Navajo public defender by the name of Janet Pete , another love story between Leaphorn and professor Louisa Bourebonette, and Chee learning how to work with Leaphorn. The story doesn't start to unravel till almost the last chapter, and you are kept on the edge of your chair till the last three pages as to "who done it". A well written, believable story.
