Spider Womans Daughter, Anne Hillerman
Spider Womans Daughter, Anne Hillerman
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Spider Woman's Daughter
A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Author: Anne Hillerman

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/01/2013


Synopsis

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER""Spider Woman’s Daughter is an intricately plotted, suspenseful, colorful, and unforgettable journey. Readers will fall in love with Bernie Manuelito and look forward to Anne Hillerman’s next effort in what should be a long, enjoyable, successful series. Her depiction of the Navajo Nation is spot on. I loved this book."" — Jo-Ann Mapson, author of award-winning Solomon's Oak and Finding CaseyLegendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman continues his popular series.It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan careen into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is put in charge of finding the shooter.Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case involving Chee’s former boss and partner, retired lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, may hold the key to the shooting. Digging into the old investigation with fresh eyes and new urgency, husband and wife find themselves inching closer to the truth with every clue . . . and closer to a killer who will do anything to prevent justice from taking its course.

About Anne Hillerman

A New Mexico author, Anne Hillerman, followed in her father's footsteps. Tony Hillerman was most noted for his Leaphorn and Chee mystery novels. When Anne first began writing, she wrote for a newspaper covering local points of interest, travel, and dining. After her father's death in 2008, Anne continued her father's mysteries with Spider Women's Daughter, which was included in the New York Times best sellers list. That was followed by Rock with Wings and Song of the Lion. In April 2018, Anne released Cave of Bones which is the fourth of her additions to the series.

The most popular award winning book not in the mystery series is a collaboration with her photographer husband, Don Strel entitled Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carmen on March 28, 2016

This is Anne Hillerman's first attempt at continuing the Leaphorn and Chee series her father started. It's good. It's definitely different than Hillerman's writing: darker, and she writes solely from female Bernie Chee's perspective. When Bernie is washing the blood of Joe Leaphorn off her hands on pa......more

Goodreads review by Diana on February 12, 2023

3.75 Stars I absolutely loved the Dark Winds TV series which was based on the Leaphorn & Chee books by Tony Hillerman. SPIDER WOMAN'S DAUGHTER is the first of the series written by his daughter Anne after his death in 2008, and one that's been on my TBR stack for a while. In this 19th addition to the......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on August 30, 2016

Tony Hillerman, after years of penning excellent mysteries featuring the thoughtful Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and the impetuous Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, ended his career with the inferior The Shape Shifter. Hillerman’s daughter, Anne Hillerman, continues the series with her first......more

Goodreads review by Clark on October 11, 2013

It was very enjoyable for me to read Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman. I was a big fan of the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee books written by Tony Hillerman (her late father). Since his death I have missed those two Navajo Nation police officers and the unique Navajo/Hopi culture in the Arizona/......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 28, 2013

As an author, I get the heebie-jeebies whenever I hear someone has decided to continue a series when the original author passes away. Authors - the good ones, at least - are not interchangeable. Take the recent books written under the Robert B. Parker imprint. Not saying they're not good books, but......more