The Shape Shifter
A Leaphorn and Chee Novel

You know how actors and people in some other fields get "lifetime achievement awards," and sometimes they get an Oscar not so much for the movie for which they are ostensibly getting the Oscar, but because they have been around a long time and everyone loves them and they're probably not gonna turn......more

This is the last Navajo Mystery penned by Tony Hillerman. It's also one of the most boring. Hillerman just goes on and on and on and on about old Navajo folklore - no, more than usual - and other subjects and it gets very tiresome. My eyes were glazing over at various times. Chee and Bernie are barely......more

The Shape Shifter turns out to be a mixed bag. On the one hand, it's always a pleasure to reunite with the inestimable Joe Leaphorn, now retired from the Navaho Tribal Police and bored. On the other hand, readers will figure out what befell the clever but merciless fugitive Ray Shewnack before Leaph......more

I bought this because it was the last Hillerman, having read all the others, but the truth is that this is only a glorified first draft of a Hillerman novel, and it should never have been published in this condition. I'd have given it one star, if not for the sentimental attachment to the series. Thi......more

Leaphorn has retired, and Chee and Bernie are finally married. Leaphorn can't let go of an unsolved case involving a Navajo rug, that years later appears in photograph in a magazine. Leaphorn investigates. It seems like Hillerman is feeling his way through this new era of the Leaphorn series.......more