Tony Hillerman - Skeleton Man.nfo
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Title: Skeleton Man
Author: Tony Hillerman
Read By: George Guidall
Copyright: 2004
Audiobook Copyright: 2004
Genre: Unabridged
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo tribal police lieutenant, is not a happy
retiree. So when his successor asks him to look into how a young Hopi
named Billy Tuve came by a valuable diamond the boy tried to pawn for
a fraction of its worth, Joe finds himself involved in a five decade
old mystery. It dates back to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon, one
that took the life of a man whose putative daughter also has an interest
in the diamond; it could lead her to her father's remains, from which
she hopes to extract enough DNA to establish her birthright. For good
measure, Hillerman adds a couple of villains determined to beat her
to the site of the crash, a cache of other diamonds long since given
up for lost in the Canyon's watery depths, and a Hopi ritual that's
kept the site secret for years. It's a good yarn, well but twice told;
Hillerman sets it up in a chronologically confusing opening chapter,
in which Joe spins the story for a couple of former law-enforcement
colleagues--not just to entertain or enlighten them but to demonstrate
what he calls his "Navajo belief in universal connections. The cause
leads to inevitable effect. The entire cosmos being an infinitely complicated
machine all working together."
Hillerman is a name-brand writer with a huge and well deserved following.
His evocation of the landscape of the Southwest is as compelling as
it ever was, and many familiar characters from the other 18 novels in
this prize-winning series appear here, notably Sergeant Jim Chee and
border patrol officer Bernie Manuelito, the woman Chee hopes to marry.
Joe Leaphorn remains his most fully-realized protagonist; his perspective
on life, destiny, and the sometimes uneasy truce between Native Americans
and whites gives this series a unique place in the genre. But as evidenced
by his latest, Hillerman's hero needs more than a retired duffer's memories
to keep him vital and alive, even for his most dedicated fans. --Jane
Adams
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