Hunting Badger

Rating:
Summary: 'Hunting Badger'--Hillerman in top form!
Review: In "Hunting Badger," Tony Hillerman's continuation of the Lt. Joe Leaphorn
and Jim Chee mystery, the author once more captures, with vivid description,
riveting detail, exciting plot, and superb characterization, life on and about the
Navajo reservation.

Leaphorn and Jim Chee team up once again to solve a crime in the Four Corners
canyons. Hillerman takes a real-life crime (In 1998 three "survivalists" steal a truck,
murder a policeman, and then disappear. The FBI and other law organizations fail
in their investigations.) and adapts it to his own fictional form. He does so,
upholding once more his reputation as one of the most exciting writers around. His
"police procedural" is in a unque--and original setting--in the middle of the Navajo
nation.

"Hunting Badger" takes us in and around and through the ins and outs of that area
before finally climaxing in triumph for Leaphorn and Chee, not to mention
Hillerman. This is perhaps his most suspenseful book in some time. It's good to
read Hillerman when he's in top form and this edition fully lives up to his
reputation! ([e-mail])

Rating:
Summary: 'Talking God' is no 'mumbo-jumbo'!
Review: In this, the ninth Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee mystery, Tony Hillerman moves outside
his favored Navajo nation to the streets and museums of Washington DC. In
"Talking God," Hillerman's police duo combine their skills once more for a riveting
Hillerman police procedural. Both men are pursuing different crimes, and both end
up in the nation's capital in an exciting run. Chee is in Washington to arrest Henry
Highhawk, a Smithsonian curator and native American, for plundering the bones
of their ancestors; Leaphorn is looking for the identity of a murder victim. As
always, Hillerman provides much local color, culture, and socio/economic dynamics
of the Navajos, many of whom are grasping quite desperately at maintaining a
balance between their history and the present day sets of values. At the same
time,"Talking God" is a compelling, gripping read in true Hillerman fashion. ([e-mail])