Skinwalkers

Name: Skinwalkers
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Tony Hillerman
ISBN: 9781705091616

Author: Tony Hillerman

Series: Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Mysteries #7

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/31/2023

Categories: Fiction, Indigenous, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural

Synopsis

Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee's trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft, and blood . . . and into the dark and mystical domain of evil beings of Navajo legend, the "skinwalkers."

About Tony Hillerman

TONY HILLERMAN served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and received the Edgar and Grand Master Awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indianâ€™s Ambassador Award, the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and the Navajo Tribal Council Special Friend of the Dineh Award. A native of Oklahoma, Tony Hillerman lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, until his death in 2008.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bobby on September 01, 2017

Those looking for a great mystery series who have yet to discover Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are in for a treat with Skinwalkers. Tony Hillerman created an entire genre with these novels. Though they've been copied, no one has ever quite blended Native American beliefs and traditions, with modern day......more

Goodreads review by Carmen on November 03, 2015

Leaphorn was a hotshot. But Leaphorn was wrong about this. This was a good, exciting entry in Hillerman's Navajo Mystery series. (#7). People are being killed in various ways on the reservation with no apparent rhyme or reason. Who's doing this and why? ... The book opens particularly well in a long an......more

Goodreads review by Lauri on October 19, 2016

Excellent but strange story set in the Navajo nation. Officer Jim Chee is being stalked by someone who believes he's a witch. The Navajo take witchcraft very seriously and there are a series of related murders. Mr. Hillerman does a great job with the native culture and traditions as well as describi......more

Goodreads review by David on August 15, 2019

Loved all Hillerman books with Leaphorn and Chee......more

Goodreads review by Glen on March 15, 2024

Leaphorn and Chee work together for the first time, as someone shotguns Chee's trailer. It would seem to be a one-off, but Chee is still around, while Leaphorn is all but gone from his own series.......more