Skinwalkers - Tony Hillerman

Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman ISBN 0060808934 Published by Harper & Row in 1988 I bought this book from Amazon as a used book after reading a review on here and Dooyoo and thought that it would appeal to my husband as he likes detective mysteries and I might also enjoy it as it is set in Navaho country where we had recently visited in the USA. Tony Hillerman is not an author I have come across before but as I am not a detective crime book reader that is not surprising. I would not discount reading any of his the books if they are set in the same area as I did find the descriptions of the ... more

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn from the Navajo Tribal Police has three and a half murders to solve. A female social worker has been shot, an elderly man hit with a shovel on his head and then shoved down a cliff, another man has been stabbed to death and his colleague Jim Chee has been shot at when sleeping in his trailer. He finds a suspect for the stabbing, but the man declares that he’s shot the man who was stabbed and is happy to have done so. Later he‘s shot as well which ups the number to four and a half murders. Too many deaths in a relatively short time for Leaphorn to believe in coincidences ... more