Leaphorn was a hotshot. But Leaphorn was wrong about this.This was a good, exciting entry in Hillerman's Navajo Mystery series. (#7). People are being killed in various ways on the reservation with no apparent rhyme or reason. Who's doing this and why?...The book opens particularly well in a long and exciting sequence that basically ends with Jim Chee's cat saving his life. The cat becomes quite a character in this book.Jim Chee has a Navajo view of animals and hates interfering with them, but h...

Excellent but strange story set in the Navajo nation. Officer Jim Chee is being stalked by someone who believes he's a witch. The Navajo take witchcraft very seriously and there are a series of related murders. Mr. Hillerman does a great job with the native culture and traditions as well as describing the desert and reservation terrain.

Those looking for a great mystery series who have yet to discover Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are in for a treat with Skinwalkers. Tony Hillerman created an entire genre with these novels. Though they've been copied, no one has ever quite blended Native American beliefs and traditions, with modern day mystery in the same entertaining way at which Hillerman was so skilled.Skinwalkers is one of Hillerman's finest pairings of young Navajo Tribal Police Officer, Jim Chee, and the legendary Lt. Joe Lea...

Enjoyed it. As usual, nice description of the landscape and setting. Leaphorn is particularly distracted by his wife's medical issues. Chee is less distracted by his female friends than normal, as things are ending with Mary and he skirmishes professionally with Janet. Suspenseful plot.

Loved all Hillerman books with Leaphorn and Chee

The suspense factor was perfect!!!!!!

A nice quick mystery about witching and the people that are convinced to do one person's killing in the name of witchery. The ultimate reason for the killings is one of the oldest motives in the book and Chee and Leaphorn do figure it out...almost too late for Chee but since there are so many others in this series I'm not giving anything away to say that Chee survives to work another case or two.

Until this case Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee had never met. Both are part of the Navajo Tribal Police force, but Leaphorn is based at Window Rock whereas Chee operates out of Shiprock, 120 miles to the north, across the rugged Chuskas Mountains. Their initial encounter is awkward. Someone blasted shotgun holes through Chee's trailer. Leaphorn's interrogation skirts the unspoken question, what are you not telling me? Like every other investigator, they both know that an intended murder v...

I found this better than the last few in the series. The two cops/detectives finally meet. In so many ways they are opposites. Young/older, religious/agnostic, single/married, impulsive/cautious and so on. Neither particularly likes the other but both grow to think of the other in a more positive way by the end of the story. Both are dealing with potential personal loss in their lives. The story involves murders and attempted murders separated by over a hundred miles. Could these have anything i...

I'd heard many good things about Hillerman and this was definitely a good read. It's not a page turner. Hillerman takes time to establish the characters and build the world. Most of the book moved fairly slowly although the pace quickened a lot at the end and there was considerable tension at that point. I'll definitely read more but probably not right away.

I listened to the audiobook and I enjoyed the narrator. I also enjoyed the story and how it incorperated some of the Native American Folklore/Mythology into the mystery. I've never read or listened to a Tony Hillerman book before and I was please with the story and the characters. I would consider reading another booy in this series. I found that I liked Chee as a character and even by the end of the story he still seemed a little mysterious to me, but it could be due to listening to the 7th boo...

Hillerman’s collection of mysteries set in the Navajo/Hopi lands of Arizona/New Mexico/Utah. One side benefit of reading this stories is what the reader learns about historical and contemporary Hopi and Navajo culture. Hillerman has created two attractive detectives, former fabled Navajo tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn and current policeman and apprentice Jim Chee, who is also studying to be a traditional medicine man.

Skinwalkers is a real page turner. This is my first dip into Hillerman's mystery series featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. I know absolutely nothing about Navajo culture and next to nothing about the tribe's history so I can't vouch for the authenticity of Hillerman's book but I can testify that this was highly entertaining and the mystery of was suitably tricky (I sort of guessed who might be involved but I had no idea how it could have been done). Lots...

Two conscientious Tribal police work to solve several apparently unrelated murders before one of them is killed by the perpetrator. The young, impulsive and spiritual Jim Chee teams up with the experienced, methodical and superstition-hating Joe Leaphorn.Like a nonfundamentalist Christian, Chee believed in the poetic metaphor of the Navajo story of human genesis. Without believing in the specific Adam's rib, or the size of the reed through with the Holy People emerged to the Earth Surface World,...

Am just beginning yet another mystery that will be totally engrossing....And I finished reading this book I was thinking yes, it was totally engrossing! Initially, Officer Jim Chee is shot in his trailer. As the story continues, Chee begins working with Lieutneant Leaphorn on a murder investigation. This is no ordinary murder investigation - it is one that involves Navajo skinwalkers! As you are reading their journey through their investigation, you learn about what the Navajo beliefs are on wit...

I never thought I'd say this, but oh my word, this book made me homesick! I loved that Skinwalkers explored the the Southwest in a way that felt both really familiar, but also exposed me to details of Navajo culture that were new and fascinating. Tony Hillerman's obvious respect for the Navajo is evident throughout the book, but he doesn't romanticize his view and portrays realistic struggles of reservation life. The mystery is perfectly paced and the detectives compliment each other in really a...

I haven't read a murder mystery in years, probably not since I was into Agatha Christie as a teenager, but, after reading Hillerman's Skinwalkers, I might start reading more. Hillerman is clearly a master of setting, with the gathering storm in the southwestern desert reflecting the gathering momentum of the unsolved murders at hand on the Navajo Reservation. I liked both Chee and Leaphorn as the two police officers tackling the case of three seemingly unrelated homicides; they were smart, level...

Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee meet up in this thriller. Each of these 2 law enforement officers are dealing with their spouses having difficult times. For Leaphorn's Emma, doctors fear she may have Alzheimer's disease while Jim Chee's Mary Landon remains in Wisconsin to go to graduate school. Leaphorn and Chee must also team up to find the common thread in a series of four murders. Leaphorn and Chee both suffer gunshot wounds. Chee's far more serious than Leaphorns. A lightening fast reading 300 pag...

Honestly this was one of the dullest books I've ever read. The characters felt like they did nothing at all. I mean seriously they wandered around and just sort of happened upon things that started to make sense within the case. Leaphorn was more worried about his wife (rightfully so) then he was about actually catching a murderer on the reservation. Chee felt like that only truly intelligent character and yet very little time felt like it was spent on him as a police officer. The pacing was so

From page one the story held me hostage, demanding my full attention. And now, I need to go back to the beginning and read this series in order. Though this is an older series (1st book released in 1970), I can't get enough of Leaphorn and Chee.