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I'm catching up on the Tony Hillerman Leaphorn Chee mystery series after a few years absence.
The Wailing Wind is a vintage Hillerman mystery one where retired investigator Leaphorn returns to piece together a puzzle that is connected an old case of his related to a swindler claiming to have maps and documents to a lost gold mine. In the process the swindler becomes the victim of a shooting by his intended target, a wealthy oil man.

As the story begins rookie Navajo Tribal Officer Bernadette Manuelito is called to the location of what appears to be an abandoned vehicle. As Bernie investigates she discovers what appears to be a sleeping drunk lying in the vehicle. She quickly discovers the man is dead. She gathers important clues but the FBI doesn't appreciate her methods. Those clues will soon become important.

The Wailing Wind presents readers with a tightly interwoven plot. It's a fast pace read. Together the team of Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Manuelito eventually unravel the mystery and discover some surprising connections.

I've always appreciated Hillerman and this story is right up there with the best.

The Wailing Wind (A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 15)


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The Wailing Wind Tony Hillerman 9780061098796 Books Reviews

The above pretty much sums up my review. This has been my least favorite in the series. An interesting plot and ending, but I actually went to sleep reading all the dialog that went on.
The Wailing Wind is the latest effort from Tony Hillerman. It's classic Hillerman a fine story, well-conceived and carefully put together, with a fair share of suspense to keep the pages turning quickly. Hillerman fans will recognize their favorite cast of characters; this edition sees Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn, fledgeling officer "Bernie" Manuelito, and relatively new character Louisa Bourbonette team up to unearth the connection between a new homicide victim and an old missing person case.
The prose is well-written, and reads quickly. The story is quite good, but not his finest (I personally recommend A Thief of Time). In The Wailing Wind, we get to learn whether Jim Chee and Bernie will take a few fumbling steps toward a budding romance, or whether Hillerman keeps us on the hook for another year. If you're a Hillerman fan, or if you're not yet, I think you'll like this story a lot.
Beautifully written, very knowledgable about Navajo culture and history, a wonderful series of books. A series of detective stories, detective/ mystery stories set in the huge Navajo reservation, about two Navajo policemen. Read them in order.
The central focus of THE WAILING WIND is Jim Chee's love interest, Bernadette Manuelito. When she investigates an abandoned truck, she finds a dead man sprawled in the cab. She doesn't notice any blood, so she assumes he's just another drunk. Bernadette is also a traditionalist, who's worried about the chindi (evil spirits), so she's reluctant to get too close to the body. As a result, she doesn't secure the crime scene and she takes a important piece of evidence with her when she leaves.
Sergeant Jim Chee tries to protect her when it's discovered the dead man had a bullet hole in his back. He calls on Joe Leaphorn to return the snuff box full of sand and placer dust to the crime scene where the FBI can find it. Later, we find out that the dead man was looking for the Golden Calf mine, just as another murder victim had before his death. This is another one of Leaphorn's unsolved cases. Wiley Denton, who'd confessed to the original murder (self defense), tries to hire Leaphorn to find his wife, Linda, who went missing the same day he killed Marvin McKay, a con man who'd been trying to sell him a map to the Golden Calf mine.
Tony Hillerman has become somewhat of a formulaic writer in his old age. Jim Chee's plot line usually involves a woman; Joe Leaphorn, although he's retired, is called in to solve the case, usually connected to one he's been trying to solve for years. There's also usually a Navajo shaman involved, in this case James Peshlakai, a signer of important curing rituals. For me, it's always been about the rituals, The Blessing Way and others, and in the last couple of Hillerman books, Tony's ignored them. Maybe because Chee is no longer studying to become a shaman. In this book, The Big Star Way is central to the plot, but Hillerman never gets around to showing us how it's done. There is one thing that hasn't deteriorated, however, and that's how well Hillerman uses the Navajo Indian Reservation as a setting. There's a map inside the front cover and on the back, and I kept paging back and forth, trying to find place names. Maps are also incidental to the plot.
There's a little teaser at the end, involving Bernadette Manuelito, giving us something to look forward to in the next one. Think wedding. One thing about Hillerman; he reads faster than Grisham or King. I read this in two days and most books usually take me a week. I hope we don't have to wait another two years for the next one.
This series is of satisfying mysteries, that can be read again and again (years apart), and still be entertaining. The characters are good and interesting, and if there are little glitches of continuity between books (very small), who can blame him for not remembering whether he thought about writing some obscure bit, or did write it, or changed it... overall an entertaining set of books.
Tony Hillerman's books stand by themselves. Great writer, great story, and like the repeating characters. Hillerman uses Native American Pueblo Peoples (Navajo, Zuni, Hopi) cultures and beliefs to build an informational story line. You not only enjoy the mysteries, you learn Southwest geography, Puebloan cultures, etc., and see inside the minds of the protagonists (Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn, Sgt. Jim Chee). Have read all Hillerman's books, and they are all can't-put-down reading. This one's no exception.
I'm catching up on the Tony Hillerman Leaphorn Chee mystery series after a few years absence.
The Wailing Wind is a vintage Hillerman mystery one where retired investigator Leaphorn returns to piece together a puzzle that is connected an old case of his related to a swindler claiming to have maps and documents to a lost gold mine. In the process the swindler becomes the victim of a shooting by his intended target, a wealthy oil man.

As the story begins rookie Navajo Tribal Officer Bernadette Manuelito is called to the location of what appears to be an abandoned vehicle. As Bernie investigates she discovers what appears to be a sleeping drunk lying in the vehicle. She quickly discovers the man is dead. She gathers important clues but the FBI doesn't appreciate her methods. Those clues will soon become important.

The Wailing Wind presents readers with a tightly interwoven plot. It's a fast pace read. Together the team of Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Manuelito eventually unravel the mystery and discover some surprising connections.

I've always appreciated Hillerman and this story is right up there with the best.

The Wailing Wind (A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 15)