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A review by tome15
The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman
5.0
Hillerman, Tony. The Ghostway. Leaphorn and Chee No. 6. Harper, 1984.
When a traditional Navaho dies in his house, it is abandoned, and a hole is cut in the north wall so that his ghost may escape. Anyone entering a Hogan where a death has occurred risks suffering a sickness; he will need to undergo a curing ceremony called the ghostway. Jim Chee’s work for the Navaho police puts him at high risk for ghost sickness. Here, Chee investigates murder and a missing persons case in a chase that takes him from the Reservation to the mean streets of LA. It is another excellent novel by a master of the genre. Most mystery novels one one-time reads, but Hillerman’s work stands up under multiple rereadings.
When a traditional Navaho dies in his house, it is abandoned, and a hole is cut in the north wall so that his ghost may escape. Anyone entering a Hogan where a death has occurred risks suffering a sickness; he will need to undergo a curing ceremony called the ghostway. Jim Chee’s work for the Navaho police puts him at high risk for ghost sickness. Here, Chee investigates murder and a missing persons case in a chase that takes him from the Reservation to the mean streets of LA. It is another excellent novel by a master of the genre. Most mystery novels one one-time reads, but Hillerman’s work stands up under multiple rereadings.