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Shoot out at the Wash-O-Mat
A Shoot out at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat leads to a puzzle that only Jim Chee with his knowledge of the Ghostway and of death rituals can try to peace together. Related is a disappearance of a school girl (Margaret Sosi) will lead Jim from the New Mexico landscape to the Los Angeles area. There with Hillerman's gift for description we also get a contrasting look of the different worlds. Will He find the girl and what does the puzzle spell out, or will it ever become clear?

This is a close continuation of "People of Darkness" so many of the descriptions and people were previously defined in that book. The reason people read Hillerman is mostly for the descriptions of the places and people his characters encounter. As seen in previous books, in the description of Margaret and other characters, he incorporates his real life experience with World War II and its aftermath.

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"A dark wind has entered his soul"
"Enemies unseen... Fears unspoken... A dark wind has entered his soul"

Navajo Tribal Police Sgt. Jim Chee seems to be batting zero; so far, he has not been able to solve a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. In an area, that was joint use land between the Navaho and the Hopi (now Hopi) Sgt Jim Chee is given the task of finding the vandal that keeps destroying a windmill placed there to make Hopi life easer. He hears an airplane landing in the dark of night with no lights. The plane crashes and leaves a dying pilot. Also a dead man sitting up against a rock with a note in his hand saying if you want it back contact...

Sgt Chee is told that it is probably drugs and federal jurisdiction. Chee is not supposed to go anywhere near or have anything to do with the case. He has his own problems with the mill, a missing thief, and a mysterious ritual death. Naturally, he listens, and cannot help it if they overlap.


One of the reasons for reading Hillerman's books maybe more important than the overlying mystery is the descriptions of the area and the Ways of the Navaho and Hopi. Hillerman suggests you also read "The Book of the Hopi" by Frank Waters.
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Nice map, just not very sturdy
The map is great for showing where the action takes place in each of Hillerman's books.My only complaint is that the map is made out of plain paper, and after being folded and unfolded a few times, I think it's going to begin to tear.

GREAT TOOL FOR HILLERMAN LOVERS
If you enjoy having as many details as possible when you read Tony H's wonderful Leaphorn/Chee sagas, this map will help you have a much better sense of the stories. I now keep it with whichever book I am reading, so I may recall where the various settings are in relation to one another. WORTH THE SMALL EXPENSE!

Tony Hillerman's Time Traveler Map
Tony Hillerman's stories take place over a wide-spread area.This map helps the reader locate important points in his various novels and see their visual relationship to each other.
This map is a great asset to any serious reader of Hillerman.

Very useful companion to Hillerman's mystery books
Too bad for me, this came out after I'd read most of Hillerman's mystery books. Lucky you if you haven't read most of the mysteries yet.

You can't use any old map as a companion for the Hillerman series, because most maps use criteria that don't fit sparsely populated areas or Navajo culture. Typical maps of the entire reservation portray it as mostly empty space.

The legendary AAA map that Leaphorn uses in the mysteries is excellent, but more detail than you need if you just want to follow along with the books. It also doesn't include fictitious features like "Short Mountain". (The "Guide to Indian Country" is free for AAA members. Not all offices carry it; I got mine from the Phoenix office.)

A reviewer of the first edition complained that this isn't a real map because it concentrates on places in the Hillerman series. But if you're just reading the series, that's exactly what you want: a specialized companion to the books.

Nice & useful but a little overpriced
This is a very attractive, quite interesting, annotated map locating many of the spots in Arizona, New Mexico, southern Colorado and southeastern Utah mentioned in Hillerman's Navajo novels. Along with marking these locations, it also offers some useful and interesting bits of pertinent information about them, though I think the design would have allowed for even more historical, cultural and geographic information relevant to the Hillerman books to be included. I suspect the Hillerman readers who probably would find it most useful are those who know at least a little bit about the area and are neither totally ignorant of the distances and geography involved nor are already intimately familiar with the region. (I've probably made about a dozen casual visits to the region, and I still found it fairly interesting.) One glaring lapse is the lack of even a simple grid system on the map to help you locate some of the spots marked by terribly similar-looking icons. And I frankly think that, even at the discounted Amazon price, this map is about $2-$4 more expensive than it really should be. ... Read more

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Brothers in Arms

It is 1859. In Santa Fe, Army Captain Jean Benoit cannot escape the dark rumors of war filling Fort Marcy's dusty air. The Louisiana-born soldier must soon decide: remain loyal to the Union Army or join with the Confederates of his native South. But before he can choose, Benoit is drawn into a battle far closer to home, a bloody conflict in which abeloved friend's life hangs in the balance.

Traveling across the New Mexico Territory, Benoit's trusted colleague, army surgeon Jason Dobbs, gets caught in a furious sandstorm. Blown off the trail into Comanche country, Dobbs is taken prisoner and tortured. Determined to save his friend, Benoit must ride hell-bent into danger, setting the painful choice that awaits him...if he survives. ... Read more

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Brothers in Arms
1859, in Santa Fe, army captain Jean Benoit cannot escape the dark rumors of war filling Fort Marcy's dusty air. A southern born soldier must decide which side he will fight in the upcoming war. But before he can decide Benoit is drawn into a battle far closer to home, a bloody conflict in which a beloved friend's life hangs in the balance.a great story. ... Read more

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Seneca Falls, West Virginia, is a picturesque town. Tucked between the foothills of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains, it lives in the shadow of the Dunning and Munroe families, mining moguls who have competed for coal in the region for generations. It is a place Joshua Chac�n would rather forget. The scorned biracial stepson of the Dunning dynasty, Chac�n has acquired a national reputation and a Pulitzer Prize for his books revealing political skullduggery. Drawn back to the hometown he abandoned by news of the mysterious murder of his half brother, Senator Stewart Dunning, Josh soon becomes entangled in a murder plot thick with the power politics of the ruling families of West Virginia's mining country.

"Any time you pick up a book with Bill Buchanan's name on the cover, there is one thing of which you can be certain: Colonel Buchanan always deals with his characters kindly and gently. The Senator and the Sin Eater, his last book before his death, provides a perfect example of this. . . . [It] is much more than a murder mystery. It is an examination of what sometimes goes wrong in a small, friendly town."--Tony Hillerman, from the Foreword ... Read more

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Enjoy the best of the Wild West in this outstanding collection of stories from Tony Hillerman to Max Brand. This new series includes Hillerman's "The Great Taos BankRobbery,"Max Brand's "Wine on the Desert," and Bret Harte's "The Ou tcast of Poker Flats." 4 cassettes. ... Read more

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A Perfect Companion on a Long Drive
If your driving through the country and have a great imagination, "The Wild West" will take you on a memorable journey. Share the dilemma of a down and out gambler stuck in a snowstorm. Live through the terror of Anthrax hitting a herd of cows. Enjoy the timeless "The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County". These tapes are filled with rich stories that easily cath up the reader. Be warned-if you rather hear stories of shootouts and fist fights, look elsewhere. The cover is deceiving- it lists "Performed by Jack Palance" underneath the title. Not all the stories are told by Palance, but the other narrators are just as good, if not as famous. These stories appeal to any lover of literature because of the richness of the charaters and the fluidity of the plots. ... Read more