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A review by tome15
Talking God by Tony Hillerman
5.0
Hillerman, Tony. Talking God. Leaphorn and Chee No. 9. Harper, 1989.
Talking God has a boffo opening, when someone sends the bones of a Smithsonian archeologist’s grandparents to her to protest the museum’s policy on repatriating Native American bones. As usual in a Hillerman novel there are plenty of difficult cases for Leaphorn and Chee to solve, cases that lead us to learn a lot about Native American culture in the four corners area. Police procedurals are usually one-time reads for me because they depend so much on the suspense of catching the criminals, but Hillerman novels are so full of information and well-drawn characters that I can always reread them with pleasure.
Talking God has a boffo opening, when someone sends the bones of a Smithsonian archeologist’s grandparents to her to protest the museum’s policy on repatriating Native American bones. As usual in a Hillerman novel there are plenty of difficult cases for Leaphorn and Chee to solve, cases that lead us to learn a lot about Native American culture in the four corners area. Police procedurals are usually one-time reads for me because they depend so much on the suspense of catching the criminals, but Hillerman novels are so full of information and well-drawn characters that I can always reread them with pleasure.