This is a mystery novel, that based on the fact of something like 15 sequels launched two careers (of the writer Tony Hillerman, and later his daughter Anne Hillerman, who would pick up the series some 30 years later) as well as the careers of a few fictional detectives/police. It’s clear from this first novel though that there’s some searching for what exactly this novel and this eventual series wants to be. We follow not the police detective through most of this novel but an […]