Hillerman fans will be interested in this book to see how Leaphorn, methodical and reliable, and Chee, a bit flaky but brilliant, get along working together.

Also, in this book, Hillerman introduces Janet Pete, an aggressive Navajo lawyer, as a new love interest for Chee. He wrote three books featuring Joe Leaphorn, then three featuring Jim Chee, and now he brings the two policemen together in the same book. 'Skinwalkers' is the seventh book in the Navajo Detective series by Tony Hillerman. The murders, it appears, all something to do with skinwalkers.

No need to have read any of the others to enjoy this one, but they all deserve to be read.Īn unknown person tries to kill Navajo policemen Jim Chee and three apparently unrelated murders on the Navajo reservation puzzle Lt. I loved how Chee's awareness of the stray cat told him what was happening around him. As always there is the vastness of the Navajo reservation, the aridity suddenly cut with violent storms. Both of them using sudden flashes of insight to solve the crime. Chee spends more time talking to people, trying to shake something loose. Hillerman has two great characters here - Leaphorn very methodical, very analytical, spending a lot of time thinking about how pieces fit into the puzzle. The incidents are connected and it once again has to do with persons suspected of witchcraft, aka skinwalkers. Someone fires a shotgun into Chee's mobile home in the middle of the night, attempting to kill him. Leaphorn is spending a lot of time looking at three unsolved homicides on the reservation.

The seventh book in the series, but the first book where Navajo police officers Sgt Leaphorn and Jim Chee meet up and work together.

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