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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. My first thought, upon finishing this novel, was 'Jim Chee would be a hard man to be in love with'. This book reminded me a lot of the novel where Jim 'breaks up' with Mary Landon. And maybe he seems so hard because he is coming from a different cultural tradition where some things really are non-negotiable. This is the first book where I really felt like Chee and Leaphorn were really starting to like each other. While some of the plot devices have been used in this series again, the story was interesting. (  ) tjsjohanna | Jul 30, 2009 |  Lt Jim Chee investigates New Mexico murder associated w/ bubonic plague. (  ) FMRox | Mar 14, 2009 | 6.5 Listener42 | Sep 1, 2008 | A Hopi eagle poacher is discovered over the body of a murdered Navajo Tribal police officer. Looks like an open and shut case until Joe Leaphorn identifies some unanswered questions. Solution—find the “first eagle.” Once Joe convinces Chee that the case against the Hopi has some big holes in it, they work together to find the real killer and along the way find another body which turns out to be linked to the first murder. Janet Pete is back to defend the accused killer. Her presence adds to Chee’s problems as he tries to figure out what his feelings for Janet and Bernie are. (  ) EssFair | Aug 21, 2008 | I always enjoy a Tony Hillerman mystery - light reading, interesting characters, interesting Arizona backdrop. I also like the way he starts with three seemingly unrelated stories and they get closer and closer together until they blend. He has a style that appears so simple, but I'm sure it was difficult to develop. In this story, Jim Chee comes upon Robert Jano kneeling over the almost dead body of Officer Kinsman and arrests him for murder. Jano has a motive - he was paching an eagle for a Hopi Ceremony. It is not the first time Kinsman has caught him doing this. One description I liked the best was that of an old Indian woman named Old Lady Notah who was a sheepherder. She believed she had seen a skinwalker, a devil, and described him as part snowman with a trunk on his back like an elephant and his face flashed like a camera. ( ) DSlongwhite | Jul 23, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0061097853, Mass Market Paperback)It seems like July 8 is going to be a bad day for Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee. He's got a stack of overdue paperwork on his desk. Anderson Nez has died of plague, but the circumstances around the death are murky. His ex-fiancée, Janet Pete, is returning from Washington, D.C., and Chee doesn't know what to think about her last letter. (Will they be getting married this time?) And Officer Benny Kinsman's unwanted advances have enraged Catherine Pollard (among others), one of the scientists studying this newest outbreak of the black death. Now, the hot-headed Kinsman's gone off to nab a Hopi man who's poaching eagles. When Chee is called to back Kinsman up at Yells Back Butte, the bad day turns worse. He finds the young Hopi, Robert Jano, standing over Benny's mortally wounded body. Jano insists that he did not kill the police officer. Add to all this Joe Leaphorn's separate investigation, also involving July 8. Joe's got a new role as consulting detective to the wealthy--investigating the July 8 disappearance at Yells Back Butte of the same Catherine Pollard who was dogged by Kinsman.This one bad day and the ensuing days of investigation bring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee together once again as they uncover the secret of Yells Back Butte, plague fleas, and skinwalkers. As usual, Hilllerman's ear for dialogue is remarkable. One does not read Leaphorn and Chee's words and thoughts as much as hear them. While the book invites new readers (little knowledge of the previous books in the series is presumed), one has the sense of entering an old neighborhood where friends and relations are established and emotions run deep. Jim Chee's pain is vivid as he struggles under the shadow of Leaphorn and questions the "rusty trailer" lifestyle that has driven him apart from Janet. Nothing is contrived in his mixture of fear and elation when he and Janet meet again. Hillerman has written an engaging novel that once again evokes the land and people of the Southwest while also confronting the cultural separateness of the region from the power centers of the East. Already honored for his previous work (Dance Hall of the Dead received the Edgar), The First Eagle is a welcome addition to the beloved Chee-Leaphorn series that began in 1971 with The Blessing Way. --Patrick O'Kelley (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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