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Loading... The Wailing Wind (2002)by Tony Hillerman
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a favorite of his now. One of his best I think. ( ![]() I thoroughly enjoyed all of the Tony Hillerman books I purchased and read for my high school library. He was an outstanding writer. His books made Shiprock, NM a place a wanted to see, and I got to experience it on a trip with my family. To Officer Bernie Manuelito the man curled on the truck seat was just another drunk—which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a murder scene—which got Sgt. Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI—which drew ex-Lieutenent Joe Leaphorn out of retirement into an old crime he longed to forget. Legends of the area’s lost gold mines join the mountains and canyons of the Navajo Reservation as elements of Hillerman’s plot, but this tale turns on an obsessive love and memories of a missing woman’s voice wailing in the darkness. The Wailing Wind is a good suspenseful story from the very beginning to the end. Leaphorn was able to solve a mystery that seemed to have had no clues. The situations are believable as well as the characters. The story gets a solid four stars in this review. Do you know, I watched many episodes of that BBC show, 'Doc Martin.' I could not help but think that there would be some sort of cosmic retribution for the way the writers, producers and actors portrayed the poor S. O. B. That is how I think of this particular Tony Hillerman novel. That poor girl didn't have to die like that. We really need to have more empathy and compassion for our fellow human beings. 'Nuff said. (And I apologize for any spoilers that may be apparent). This Tony Hillerman story was written with a thin plot that wandered from the theme of The Wailing Wind, not what I expect from Hillerman’s Navajo detective series. The backstory was skilfully interwoven with the present developments in a cold case, but Hillerman’s descriptions of the landscape and traditional Navajo ways appeared as if by rote, which lacked its usual liveliness. My major disappointment was Bernie’s budding romance with Chee takes off in this narrative. This is a pleasant development after the ill-suited attraction to Mary Landon and the incompatible Janet Pete. The scenes where Bernie is sleuthing for the right plant habitat ( no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesLeaphorn/Chee (15) Is contained inJoe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery Series Complete Set by Tony Hillerman, Volumes 1-18. Also known as the Navajo Tribal Police Mystery Novels. (Titles include: The Blessing Way / Dance Hall of the Dead / Listening Woman / People of Darkness / The Darkwind / The Ghostway / Skinwalkers / A Theif of Time / Talking God / Coyote Waits, / Sacred Clowns / The Fallen Man / The First Eagle / Hunting Badger / The Walking Wind / The Sinister Pig / Skeleton Man / Shape Shifter) by Tony Hillerman Is abridged inDistinctions
Nothing had seemed complicated about the old "Golden Calf" case. A con game had gone sour. Wealthy old Wiley Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed, and done his short prison time. No mystery there, except why did the rich man's bride vanish? And now, papers found by Sergeant Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito in a new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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