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Author: Tony Hillerman
Publisher: HarperTorch
Release Date: 1999-07-01
ISBN-10: 0061097853
ISBN-13: 9780061097850
List Price: $7.99
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When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or another victim? And what about a report that a skinwalker--a Navajo witch--was seen at the same time and place too? For Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a place where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide.
Hillerman mystery series
| Customer Rating: | I've read all of Tony Hillerman's books, primarily for the mysteries, but also for the setting and the unique education he passes along about the Hopi and Navajo indians. This is a typical good mystery by Hillerman, but a little atypical as relates to his penchant for mysticism and indian culture; there is relatively little. His characters are continuing down their developmental paths, retirement, a starcrossed romantic relationship and an up and coming sleuth. Their development is center stage in this book, and provide a good read, but I was expecting the normal mix of indian lore, superstition, and hard desert living that you normally get from Hillerman.
George E. Miller, author of The Lone War Cry |
Provides some entertainment but falls short.
| Customer Rating: | I read this book in college for Cultural Anthropology to study the cultural aspects and customs of Native American reservations and its citizens. The novel provided some insight on social standings and customs but in terms of entertainment it falls quite short, as it is quite predictable and not overly fulfilling.
The writing is simply enough to provide the casual reader to breeze through chapters and the length of the novel is not overwhemling by any means.
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a murderer caught red-handed, or was Chee wrong?
| Customer Rating: | | Acting Lt Jim Chee is finds a Hopi indian with blood on his hands and a dead policeman, and naturally assumes the Hopi had just killed him. This particular indian even has a motive! But all is not what it seems, as the legendary retired Lt Joe Leaphorn gets involved as a result of being hired to find a missing lady who was hunting for clues about the bubonic plague, fleas and prairie dogs. Leaphorn becomes suspicious that something else is going on, with strange reports of a ghost skinwalker in the area. Is the disappearance of the lady connected to the dead policeman? You will enjoy the cast of characters, political wrangling, red herrings and the ultimate confrontation with the killer. |
One of the last of the great Hillerman books (A review of the audiobook)
| Customer Rating: | I've read all of the Leaphorn/Chee books so now I'm enjoying them all over again as audiobooks. Most readers will agree that Hillerman's last 4 or 5 books haven't exactly been duds, but not up to the high standards set by his earlier works. This one may well be the last of the really strong ones.
Leaphorn is now retired. He decides to do a little private detective work and his case leads him into a seperate case being worked by Jim Chee. Without going into too much detail, just know that this one hangs together well, the characters are still growing and changing and Leaphorns thoughts on getting older, being retired and being lonely are heartfelt and real. Jim Chee makes a series of life-changing decisions in this one. |
The book that introduced me to Tony Hillerman.
| Customer Rating: | | "The First Eagle" was the novel that introduced me to Tony Hillerman, and I will forever be grateful. Superbly written and compelling. Mr. Hillerman's last few novels have been a bit disappointing ("The Shape Shifter" most of all), but "The First Eagle" is first rate. Highly recommended. |
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