From the back cover
“Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo
Tribal Policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved
case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine
spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was
supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating
one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always
said to be cursed, and now the friend who brought to Leaphorn’s attention has
mysteriously gone missing.
“With newly wedded officers Jim Chee and Bernie
Manuelito just back fromt heir honeymoon, the legendary ex-lawman is one his
own to pick up the threads of a crime he’d once thought impossible to untangle.
And they’re leading him back into a world of lethal greed, shifting truths, and
changing faces, where a cold-blooded killer still resides.”
Review
Steeped
in Native American myths and legends, Shape is a good, steady-pace cop
procedural with interesting multicultural characters, myth- and legend-infused action
and characterization and a suspenseful climax. The identity of the
villain is easy to figure out but in Shape it is not a criticism because
Leaphorn’s journey and the multicultural stories he hears and tells are more
important than the mystery aspect of the novel. This is worth reading and
owning, if the above back cover description and this review interest you.
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