Tony Hillerman
Paperback | Pages: 316 pages Rating: 4.15 | 10883 Users | 359 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Listening Woman |
| ISBN: | 0061000299 (ISBN13: 9780061000294) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Leaphorn & Chee #3 |
| Characters: | Joe Leaphorn |
| Setting: | New Mexico(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979), National Book Award Finalist for Mystery (Paperback) (1980) |
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I have read the majority of the Tony Hillerman Navajo Mysteries (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee). I really enjoy reading about the 4 corners area and learning more about the Navajos, their history, and their culture.Listening Woman is a very compelling read. Many Hillerman fans think that it is one of his best novels in an 18 book series. I liked it, too.
Hillerman combines some really good elements including murder, kidnapping, theft, religious superstitions, a vicious dog, a Navajo Catholic priest, a violent Navajo militant group, boy scouts, the FBI, a man with gold glasses, a helicopter, fire, a massive explosion, and Joe Leaphorn the detective who gets to the bottom of the case while surviving some very harrowing experiences.
If you like the great American Southwest (NM, AZ, UT, CO), American Indian culture and history, compelling characters and intriguing mystery, then Hillerman provides plenty of good reading material.
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| Title | : | Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee #3) |
| Author | : | Tony Hillerman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 316 pages |
| Published | : | July 5th 1990 by HarperTorch (first published April 1978) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime |
Rating Appertaining To Books Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee #3)
Ratings: 4.15 From 10883 Users | 359 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee #3)
Listening Woman meditates in a quiet place seeking knowledge on how to help someone. Except, as she sits in her trance, her patient and her niece are murdered.A bank robbery and a disappearing helicopter somewhere over Navajo land seems unrelated.Leaphorn wants to avoid watching a group of Boy Scouts camping and looks into these old cases. The cases may be old with no new developments, but they drop Leaphorn into the middle of trouble.The book is full of Navajo lore, descriptions of the countryTony Hillerman's third Navajo thriller written in 1978, "Listening Woman" is a true classic. Lt. Joe Leaphorn is on the case and must battle danger at every turn. Hillerman has such wonderful characters to read. His characters come alive off the pages full of life and depth. Even Hillerman's bad guys are finely crafted . ""Listening Woman, at a very quick 289 pages was an incredible thriller. With each page it's seems to transport the reader to Canyon de Chelly, or along the Arizona/ Utah
This was more interesting for the exposure to Dine (Navajo) philosophy and thought processes than for the mystery. The mystery was written in 1978, a decade when there were quite a few political kidnappings and related crimes. This is a political kidnapping and crime. Leaphorn with his respect for order and rational thought gets caught up in it when he tries to figure out why an old Dine man has been murdered, along with a girl that basically was at the wrong place at the wrong time. There was a
I remember listening to the series as audiobook with my family on road trips. I decided to listen to them again but this book wasn't available on Audible, so I read it on a plane ride home. The series still does not disappoint. Well worth rereading or relistening to.
Another fine Tony Hillerman novel. Mixing Navajo patrolman Joe Leaphorn with domestic terrorists, kidnapping and armored car robbery. this one is a winner. Fun read
I have read the majority of the Tony Hillerman Navajo Mysteries (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee). I really enjoy reading about the 4 corners area and learning more about the Navajos, their history, and their culture.Listening Woman is a very compelling read. Many Hillerman fans think that it is one of his best novels in an 18 book series. I liked it, too. Hillerman combines some really good elements including murder, kidnapping, theft, religious superstitions, a vicious dog, a Navajo Catholic priest, a
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