The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman
The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman
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The Shape Shifter

Author: Tony Hillerman

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/14/2023

Synopsis

Lt. Joe Leaphorn, who can't seem to stay retired, investigates a case that takes him back to his earliest days with the Navajo Tribal Police. When Erwin Totter's trading post burned to the ground back in 1965, the news that Ray Shewnack, a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted List, had perished in the blaze drew all available officers to the scene. Joe Leaphorn (Skeleton Man, 2004, etc.) was pulled away from Grandma Peshlakai's, where he'd gone in hopes of recovering the ten gallons of pinyon sap stolen from her. It was a waste of time, Grandma Peshlakai insisted, since the man was certainly dead. Now Leaphorn's old friend Mel Bork, a private eye in Flagstaff, has disappeared after sending Leaphorn a photograph of a tribal rug that's supposed to have been destroyed in the Totter fire. If the rug survived-and when Leaphorn treks out to Flagstaff to examine it as it hangs on the wall of big-game hunter Jason Delos's lodge-maybe Shewnack, a holdup artist who managed to kill two victims and finger his three accomplices to the police, isn't dead after all. (Kirkus Reviews)

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 Indian’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 David on August 14, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Carmen on March 28, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Ivonne on August 09, 2013

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

Goodreads review by Timons on September 04, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Glen on February 02, 2023

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

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