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While first-time readers will find plenty to enjoy in Hunting Badger, it holds special pleasures for long-time fans. There's more and deeper contact between Leaphorn and Chee and we continued to see deeper into the prickly Leaphorn's human side (though presented without fuss or sentimentality). Chee finally begins to get over Janet Pete (it took about six books) and inch toward a new love interest. And in a moving section involving Chee's spiritual teacher Frank Sam Nakai, the shaman provides a key insight into the case.
In a world teeming with "sense of place" mysteries--set in Seattle, Alaska, the Arizona desert or Chicago--it can be a shock to return to Hillerman, who started it all, and realise just how superior he is to the rest of the pack. --Nicholas H. Allison --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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‘A wonderful storyteller’ New York Times
‘On their own [Leaphorn and Chee] are compelling: as a duo, they’re the best since Lennon and McCartney.’ Washington Post
‘An impressive piece of writing from one of american’s best crime writers.’ Crime Time
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Personally I could have done with fewer reminders of the real-life FBI fiasco that motivated the plot-line, and I could have taken some more Navajo lore - but these are quibbles.
Chee and Leaphorn fans will already have ordered this, anyone else need not hesitate - unless they want to start right back at the beginning to read the whole series.
As with all of Tony Hillerman's stories you have the feeling you are there. In fact if you have visited or live in the area (Four Corners canyons) that the mystery takes part in, you will be better able to identify with the people and landmarks. And as with his other books there is an overt and covert story.
I have read the book but the addition of the voice of George Guidall ads a dimension to the story by helping visualize the people and correcting pronunciation of certain words. I suggest you read the book and listen to the recorded version.
This series is satisfying principally for its setting in the 'land of room enough and time'- great desert expanses of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico- and for its meticulous ethnographic detail. In this book the plot is as satisfying as ever, although there is a bias towards FBI lore, based, as it is, on a real manhunt which took place in 1998 in the canyons of the Utah Arizona border country. The series' two main characters, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee,(more footsore than fancy free, in this instance) and 'Lieutenant emeritus' Joe Leaphorn both have equal billing and appear to be working in tandem at last, thank goodness! I prophesy a happy ending for all sometime soon.
I particularly like this series because the books are so much more than just whodunnits. Hillerman is particularly knowledgeable about his subject- Navajo history and traditions and he writes with great sympathy for a culture not his own, and a countryside which he clearly loves deeply. His descriptions of the landscape, and lifestyle are unsentimental but leave you wanting more.
It is also interesting that the books have two quite different main characters, both fully developed and sympathetic. This allows him to ring the changes very effectively over the series and avoids the books seeming too formulaic.
If you are a devotee of the Crime/Thriller genre, you will enjoy the plot, which is satisfying as always. If not you will find the setting and characters enthralling in their own right.
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