Anne Hillerman has picked up her late father's mantle to continue his popular mystery series. I have to say she has done an admirable job. There is a slight indefinable quality that seems missing but I can't explain what that is. This story revisits characters from Tony Hillerman's 1988 novel A Thief of Time but this time it is retired Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn who is the victim, gunned down in front of Officer Bernie Manuelito, wife of Leaphorn's long time partner Sgt. Jim Chee. As Leaphorn fights for life in the hospital, Bernie and Chee search for the shooter in many of the same places in New Mexico and Arizona that appear in the earlier books of the series. Reading this was like meeting up with old friends again.
I will look forward to more from this author. So glad she didn't let the Leaphorn/Chee series vanish. Love these historical mysteries.
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