Song of the Lion

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Hillerman, Anne	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024
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While investigating a car bomb meant for a mediator for a development planned at the Grand Canyon, tribal police officers Manuelito, Chee, and their mentor Lieutenant Leaphorn piece together clues that link the bombing to a cold case and a very patient killer with a long-range plot for revenge.

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third in the series submitted by camelsamba on August 12, 2018, 11:29pm This is the third mystery in the series by Anne Hillerman, and has a police procedural slant. Bernie is a strong female lead. Family is a strong component, as is the Navajo culture. Because I grew up in New Mexico, I get a little bit homesick reading about the landscapes. I listened to the previous two as audiobooks and I missed aspects of that, e.g. Navajo words appear on occasion and while I did recognize a few I was not sure how to pronounce most of them. (The narrator of the audiobooks is wonderful, by the way.)

After Tony Hillerman died, his daughter Anne took up the pen and built on his characters while taking them in new directions. It had been a long time since I’d read any Hillerman and I doubt I read all of them, so I don’t know how or when Bernie (short for Bernadette) Manuelito was introduced. Anne gives her much more of a starring role in the series, although her husband Jim Chee is still important and Joe Leaphorn (the original Hillerman detective) is consulted here and there.

song submitted by smr on July 25, 2021, 9:51am of the lion