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Summary: Average, but good mystery from Hillerman
Review: Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn delve into an eleven year old disappearance of a rock climber. Now his body has been found on Ship Rock mountain. Once the identification is made public, shots are fired at the last witness to see him alive. Now Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee most work with newly retired Joe Leaporn to put the pieces together. The subplot about cattle rustling was too much a diversion and made the pace of my reading painful.
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Summary: Chee and Leaphorn: Dynamic Duo!
Review: Jim Chee is a Navaho tribal policeman. But he is as far from the Hollywood stereotypical Indian as it is possible to be. He is articulate, intelligent, Arizona State University educated, and FBI-Academy trained. Chee is not the brawling Spenser of Robert Parker nor the intellectual Alec Delaware of Jonathon Kellerman. He is more the calmly logical Lucas Davenport of John Sandford's "Prey" series. Loyal Hillerman readers, of course, need no such introduction, as this is the 15th novel in a series. "Well, that other cop . . . doesn't he have a lot of this figured out?" Leaphorn chuckled. "Chee is a genuine Navaho. He isn't interested in revenge. He wants harmony."
In The fallen Man we see a routine reopening of an eleven-year-old routine disappearance. Enter Chee, newly promoted lieutenant, and Joe Leaphorn, newly
retired tribal police chief. As the plot unfolds, we get typical Hillerman. He paints superb descriptions of the Southwest's breathtaking beauty. His vivid snowstorms leave the reader shivering in the comfort of the living room lamplight. He writes of Navaho culture, traditions, and life on the reservation with respect and dignity. (Protocol requires that Chee remain in his car a few minutes after driving into the yard of a Navaho in order to give the residents time to prepare for visitors. An upside down old boot on a fence post tells a visitor no one is home.) His protagonists are not heroic, nor even unusual--just quietly efficient, even while following false leads in majestic mountains amid views that "stretch away forever." Perhaps not the bone-chilling terror of the King/Koontz genre, but still exciting and suspenseful .
Chuck Lang, Sun City, Arizona
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Summary: Hillerman's Fallen Man
Review: Joe Leaphorn follows a convoluted trail from the top of Shiprock to a rocky hillside, following a killer through time. Leaphorn's methodical ways -- and sometimes fey reasoning -- provide a just resolution, oddly merciful, to a situation that had to end.
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Summary: Hillerman's Fallen Man
Review: Joe Leaphorn follows a convoluted trail from the top of Shiprock to a rocky hillside, following a killer through time. Leaphorn's methodical ways -- and sometimes fey reasoning -- provide a just resolution, oddly merciful, to a situation that had to end.
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Summary: good for a fix but not as good as it gets
Review: Like other reviewers I needed a Hillerman fix, especially after the disappointing Finding Moon. but I found Fallen Man to be confusing (like others) and poorly edited. That is there were several phrases and descriptions repeated chapters apart, and I even noted (in the paperback) a mistake in the identification of two people having a conversation. Faults aside, like most Hillerman books, I couldn't put it down once I started. But how did he die?
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Summary: Same elements with a different slant
Review: Looks like a skeleton of a climber was found on a ledge on Ship Rock. Could this solve the mystery of a person missing for many years? Retired Joe Leaphorn is given a retainer to find out the circumstances. He enlists the help of Jim Chee.Chee has his plate pretty full trying to juggle his love life, being acting LT., dealing with an over zealous assistant. On top of that he has to compete with a boring snob of an authority in tracking down cattle rustler(s). As usual all the clue are laid out in the open and if one works at it they may be able to peace the puzzle together before Joe or Jim. It is fun watching how it is reviled to them. We also have plenty of what makes Hillerman famous and that is descriptions of the Four Corners area and the Navaho way. I appreciate this as I have spent many a summer watching Ship Rock from Mesa Verde.
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Summary: First book I read of Hillerman's
Review: The characters were great. You were really able to relate to each of the characters. Hillerman writes an incredible mystery right up until the last page.
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Summary: A worthy read simply because it was written by T. Hillerman
Review: The value of Fallen Man for me is in the fact that it has once again revived a mental relationship between myself , Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn. As a longtime reader of Tony Hillerman, the reunion of these characters to his fictional writings was a welcome event. I must admit I did'nt even read his previous book which left out the famous Navajo sleuths I so enjoy. To see his book Fallen Man featuring the tribal dynamic duo was a happy occasion. While some may find fault with it, in comparison to other Hillerman books, I found it did exactly what I desired. It transported me to that great Southwest, the Four Corners region and the read was filled with history, folklore and tribal "stuff" that I thrive on. May'be I bought the book for it's primary characters, but nobody can make these characters live like Hillerman. Nobody can make me want to go to Tuba City, or Gallup, or drive down State route 666 like Tony Hillerman. For about three hundred pages I'm transported out of the ordinary routine and placed into the beauty of the Southwest I love. I only wish he could write three a year. I will do exactly with Fallen Man what I have done with all of Hillerman's books on this topic, when my "Hillerman fix" can't be satisfied with a new book, I'll read it again. If you love the Southwest and have a "sixteenth" of Native American in you, like we all say we do, read one of these books and your are hooked forever.
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Summary: Hmmm....
Review: This book was immensly boring. I feel utterly stupid for having wasted my time reading this blithering mass of mindless jargon. This mystery did NOT keep me on the edge of my seat like it should have. The characters were poorly described and muh! What a waste! I'm just sorry that I couldn't choose to give negative stars.
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Summary: A Who-Done-It with a twist
Review: This is a detective novel, with a cultural twist that I found entertaining. The addition of insights into the Navajo culture clearly enhanced this book and made it into something significantly better than the simple "who done it" it would otherwise have been.
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