Susan's Reviews > Skinwalkers

I don't usually read murder mysteries, but I guess that is the point of book clubs to get you to read what you normally wouldn't. I found this particular mystery to be well written, just enough plot to keep me interested in the homicide cases that develop between two officers of the Navajo Tribal Poilce, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee.

Both of these men are main characters in other Tony Hillerman novels, but he brings them together in this multiple homicide thriller about the dark and sinister world of the Navajo witches "Skinwalkers."

This is my first Tony Hillerman novel so I don't know if he goes more in depth with the characters in his other novels, but in this one I am left wondering about the lives of the main characters, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. He gives you just enough so that you need to read the other novels to find out what happens with Emma (Leaphorn's wife who has been ill) and with Mary Landon(Chee's long distance relationship that seems to be fizzling out) and Janet Pete (a lawyer and Chee's possible new love interest).

I do like the unusual style with which he writes, although I found it a bit confusing at first, he likes to explore the inner thoughts of the characters, the way they think about the events that have taken place and flashbacks to other conversations where Hillerman had not yet provided all the details.