Finding Moon

I absolutely LOVED this book! It is not Hillerman's usual fare and I think it is far better :) This was the last book I had left to read that he has written and in this case, I did save the best for last.......more

319 pages of excellent storytelling, without sex or excess violence. The main character is a small-town newspaper worker from Colorado who is suddenly thrust into the final days of the Vietnam war by his dead brother. Moon Mathias is a Vietnam veteran who has his life back in order, or so he thinks,......more

Just as everyone is fleeing Vietnam, and the surrounding Pol Pot bloodbath, Moon Mathias is ordered by his mother to go in and find his dead brothers alleged illegitimate baby. Along the way Moon collects a motley group of people with equally unreasonable expectations of him. I enjoyed the recurring......more

Hillerman is not at his best when he leaves his milieu of the U.S. Southwest. This predictable book finds his protagonist, a newspaper managing editor, searching for his recently deceased brother's baby daughter by a Cambodian woman. So he and a crew of people who have attached themselves to him hav......more

Like millions of other readers, I first encountered Tony Hillerman in his Leaphorn and Chee mysteries. A master of characterization, intricate, twisty plots, and lush depictions of place, I had fallen in love with his Southwest and gained a much deeper understanding of the Native American cultures t......more