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Cave of Bones: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
Oleh Anne Hillerman
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A New York Times Bestseller
Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.
When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned and is traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon a human skeleton on her trek. While everyone is relieved that Annie is back, they’re concerned about a beloved instructor who went out into the wilds of the rugged lava wilderness bordering Ramah Navajo Reservation to find the missing girl. The instructor vanished somewhere in the volcanic landscape known as El Malpais. In Navajo lore, the lava caves and tubes are believed to be the solidified blood of a terrible monster killed by superhuman twin warriors.
Solving the twin mysteries will expose Bernie to the chilling face of human evil. The instructor’s disappearance mirrors a long-ago search that may be connected to a case in which the legendary Joe Leaphorn played a crucial role. But before Bernie can find the truth, an unexpected blizzard, a suspicious accidental drowning, and the arrival of a new FBI agent complicate the investigation.
While Bernie searches for answers in her case, her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee juggles trouble closer to home. A vengeful man he sent to prison for domestic violence is back—and involved with Bernie’s sister Darleen. Their relationship creates a dilemma that puts Chee in uncomfortable emotional territory that challenges him as family man, a police officer, and as a one-time medicine man in training.
Anne Hillerman takes us deep into the heart of the deserts, mountains, and forests of New Mexico and once again explores the lore and rituals of Navajo culture in this gripping entry in her atmospheric crime series.
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Cave of Bones: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
Oleh Anne Hillerman
Deskripsi
A New York Times Bestseller
Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.
When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned and is traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon a human skeleton on her trek. While everyone is relieved that Annie is back, they’re concerned about a beloved instructor who went out into the wilds of the rugged lava wilderness bordering Ramah Navajo Reservation to find the missing girl. The instructor vanished somewhere in the volcanic landscape known as El Malpais. In Navajo lore, the lava caves and tubes are believed to be the solidified blood of a terrible monster killed by superhuman twin warriors.
Solving the twin mysteries will expose Bernie to the chilling face of human evil. The instructor’s disappearance mirrors a long-ago search that may be connected to a case in which the legendary Joe Leaphorn played a crucial role. But before Bernie can find the truth, an unexpected blizzard, a suspicious accidental drowning, and the arrival of a new FBI agent complicate the investigation.
While Bernie searches for answers in her case, her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee juggles trouble closer to home. A vengeful man he sent to prison for domestic violence is back—and involved with Bernie’s sister Darleen. Their relationship creates a dilemma that puts Chee in uncomfortable emotional territory that challenges him as family man, a police officer, and as a one-time medicine man in training.
Anne Hillerman takes us deep into the heart of the deserts, mountains, and forests of New Mexico and once again explores the lore and rituals of Navajo culture in this gripping entry in her atmospheric crime series.
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Cave of Bones is a well written story. The tone of the book stayed from the beginning to the end. All of the characters were believable, as well as the story itself. Highly recommended.
Mystery is not my genre, but this looked interesting. I hadn't read any of the series, but I did enjoy the Navajo culture woven into the plot. Otherwise I spent a lot of time trying to keep track of characters who only had tangential relation to the plot.
I was introduced to Tony Hillerman's books about the Navajo Police Force at least 30 years ago by a friendly librarian. When Tony died I thought that would be the end of the series but his daughter took up the mantle and has now produced 4 more books. She also introduced a female police officer into the mix, Bernie Manuelito who is married to Jim Chee. Bernie was centre stage in this book and it was great to see her cope with problems on her own.Bernie was asked to speak to a group of girls taking a Navajo heritage and character building course out in a remote area of New Mexico once covered by lava from a volcano called El Malpais. Each girl had to spend one night alone without any technology to get in the way of experiencing nature and her own thoughts. Annie got spooked and ran in the middle of the night. She ended up sheltering in a cave that had been used in the distant past as a burial site. In the morning one of the camp counsellors went to find her. Annie eventually runs back to the camp but the counsellor never shows up. He was an expert in tracking the area so it is doubtful he simply got lost. Annie denies she ever saw him but she is clearly traumatized by her experience. Bernie calls in the officer who will set up a search for him and then she leaves to conduct other business. Meanwhile Jim Chee is on a course in Santa Fe where Bernie's sister, Doreen, is also taking an art course. Jim wants to check on Doreen because she is involved with a man Jim sent to jail in years past. Although Annie is not involved in the search for the missing man she keeps getting drawn into the matter because there are allegations that he may have misused band funds and walked away to avoid arrest. Bernie's investigation is not helped by a blizzard that sweeps into the area and closes everything down for a night. Everything gets resolved of course but not the way I expected.I wasn't overly impressed by the narrator of this audiobook, Christina Delaine. She didn't seem to get the men's voices significantly different from the female voices.
Anne Hillerman has found the magic with this, her fourth, Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito novel. Good storyline, interesting characters, not too much domestic backstory. Pleasure to read.
A lot of clever interpersonal drama. It added to the richness of the story having it take place in winter and in the end a snow storm became a plot element. I don't recall that Tony Hillerman ever branched out to botany in any of the books he wrote so adding that in this story is a new dimension. Interesting that Anne Hillerman would name the young woman who plays a central role in the story after herself.
I enjoy the characters and the settings. The stories are interesting and good characterization. Bernie is on a case where a counselor and teen disappear during a camping retreat for at-risk teens.
Anne Hillerman is continuing the series begun by her father, Tony Hillerman, which centers on detectives in the Shiprock/Four Corners area of New Mexico. Officer Bernadette (Bernie) Manuelito is asked to fill in for another officer giving a talk to a group of troubled Navajo girls participating in the “Wings and Roots” camping program. When Bernie arrives, her talk is cancelled because one of the girls, Annie Rainsong, is missing, as is Domingo (Dom) Cruz, the experienced instructor who went out to find her. Other plot strands include what is happening with Bernie’s husband, Jim Chee, also an officer, who is off at a training course in Santa Fe, and with Bernie’s sister Darleen, who is at an art school in Santa Fe.There isn’t much of a mystery, with the officers being rather oblivious to the clues any reader would pick up, and the writing is somewhat ho-hum. But the descriptions of Navajo customs and of the El Malpais Conservation area are quite well done. This is an area of ancient eruptions, resulting in “a landscape of craters, cones, lava falls, and ice caves." I have been to this section of New Mexico, and it is indeed amazing and awe-inspiring. I enjoyed “revisiting” it through this story. The author also exposes a bit of the complications in policing the area because of the sometimes unclear and overlapping jurisdictions of state, federal, and tribal areas, but these difficulties don’t play much of a role in the story.Evaluation: This book has more to offer in terms of setting than for its mystery aspects, but if you approach it as a guide to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, you will be well-rewarded. As a bonus, the author does not neglect to pay tribute to the ubiquitous green chiles in New Mexico cuisine.
A new addition to the ‘Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito’ series written by Anne Hillerman, CAVE OF BONES, does not disappoint. It is an interesting story written in the tradition of the early books by Tony Hillerman (Anne’s father).The story centers on ‘what did or didn’t happen’ when Annie Rainsong became separated from the main group of campers in the Wings and Roots wilderness program for teens sponsored by the Ramah Tribal Council.The main location is the Ramah Navajo District, specifically El Malpais National Conservation Area - an area of ancient lava flows; a “landscape of craters, cones, lava falls and ice caves.”The scenery, the sense of place, the Navajo culture, the geography, the map - are all major characters in this series and why I love the series so much.Many familiar characters are involved - Officer Bernadette Manuelito, Sgt. Jim Chee (on a training course in Santa Fe), retired Navajo policeman Joe Leaphorn and Captain Largo.Detailed characters and interwoven plots, story tension and very interesting locations make (for me) a perfect read. *****
A charming mystery involving illegal antiquities, natural psychedelics, greed, and finally, justice. Bernie, Chee, and Leaphorn are, as always engaging characters.
Good characters, some stereotypes i.e. nasty council member, excellent sense of all things Najaho and the high desert locale. The story evolved slowly; much like a woven carpet, the pace suited the environment.
if you're reading this, it's probably not your first Hillerman book. Bernie is tasked to give a talk to kids in El Malpais, near Grants, NM, but is distracted by a lost person. Jim Chee goes to school in Santa Fe, right near my house. Leaphorn provides consulting services. Most of the story is about Bernie, but it all comes together in the end. Oh, and there's a new chracter in the series, an FBI chick who wire brushes Bernie. There are some nice clues about Navajo culture. Fun read!
Tribal Officer, Bernie Manuelito (Jim Chee's wife) is assigned to give a talk to a group of "troubled" teenage girls, who are out on a retreat doing a solo over-night stay in the Malpais Lava Flow: While Chee, is taking classes on advanced police work and having to deal with Bernie's spoiled, p.i.t.a. sister.One of the counselors goes missing after locating one of the more problematic girls who left her campsite.There is more to the story, but I really can't tell you because I found it dis-jointed with too many different sub-plots and I read through it quickly just to be done with it. I never warmed up to the story and I didn't like the majority of the characters, they were just shallow ugly people.Also disappointing is the gratuitous mentions of Joe Leaphorn... It seems he's only written because he is expected to be a part of the story and the author really doesn't know how to fit him in. As I stated I found this dis-jointed, confusing, rambling, & not really well written...
Enjoyed the unfolding process of this Navajo thriller. How about Comanches next time?
Another great Hillerman novel! Anne continues to develop the characters to a level that surpasses her dad, but I do miss his sense of place and history. His infusion of Navajo culture and description of the land and customs has never been matched.