Anne Hillerman continues writing stories of the characters created by her late father. In general she does a good job, unfortunately in this book there are a few too many "criminal" activities going on and some feel unnecessary. Navajo police officers and husband and wife, Bernadette Manuelito and Jim Chee attempt to take a much needed vacation to Monument Valley. Plans go awry when Bernie has to return home because her alcoholic sister has disappeared. Chee ends up filling in with the local police station tasked with providing security and keeping a motion picture crew in line. When a member of the film staff goes missing Chee finds her and the two of them literally stumble across a new grave. In the meantime, Bernie goes back to work and is offered a bribe during a traffic stop. Chee's former partner, the retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is still recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. He is frail and unable to speak but aids his old partner and Bernie by doing research for them on the computer. In a convoluted plot involving money laundering, blood stains in a hotel room, solar power, endangered species, skinwalkers, and murder, Hillerman manages to tie it all up in the end. I listened to the audio book version and was disappointed in the narrator. The books by Tony Hillerman were read by the imcomparable George Guidall. This one was read by Christine Delaine who did an acceptable but not great job of it.
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