Spider Woman's Daughter: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

By Anne Hillerman

Book Overview

Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Spider Woman's Daughter is an intricately plotted, suspenseful, colorful, and unforgettable journey. Readers will fall in love with Bernie Manuelito and look forward to Anne Hillerman's next effort in what should be a long, enjoyable, successful series. Her depiction of the Navajo Nation is spot on. I loved this book." -- Jo-Ann Mapson, author of award-winning Solomon's Oak and Finding Casey

Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back in a new Native American detective series The supremely talented daughter of New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman continues his popular crime fiction series.

It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan careen into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is put in charge of finding the shooter.

Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case thriller involving Chee's former boss and partner, retired lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, may hold the key to the shooting. Digging into the old investigation with fresh eyes and new urgency, husband and wife find themselves inching closer to the truth with every clue . . . and closer to a killer who will do anything to prevent justice from taking its course.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062420585
• ISBN13: 9780062420589
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Another copyist?

Ms Hillerman writes well, but she appears to be living off her father's reputation, in that she obviously doesn't know the Navajo people like her father did. As is usual for me with these books, I find Manuelito annoying and unrealistic. The downplay of Chee and Leaphorn in favor of her is disappointing, but not unexpected.

Navajo Mysteries (Book 19) has a smooth transition.

Leaphorn gets shot. It is witnessed by Bernie. She feels sorry that she could not have anticipated and prevented it. So, she takes the mission to find out who did this dastardly deed and why. As with previous books in the series, yes, the dastardly deed takes place from the center; however, this deed is only a part of what we buy the book for. One of the main reasons for buying the Hillerman novel is for the details of the people, places, and things that are local to the Four Corners area. I think Anne out-describes Tony. She might've mentioned sopaipillas to a tee, but she forgot to mention Navajo tacos. I bought this book anticipating that it would be a cheap knockoff and an attempt at the genius of Tony Hillerman. I was more than pleasantly surprised to find out that this book followed the Hillerman formula and, by the end of the book, may have improved on it. Again, what was nice about this book was expected in the story, and it did focus on the life and love of Bernie. The surprise came when the bulk of the book referred to old friends and enemies from previous books. So, it became an extension of previous stories and deserves to be book 19 and the series instead of a new series. I hope that Anne Hillerman will continue the series as she left it open enough to do so. For a better background to the story, watch the movie "A Thief of Time" (2004) (TV Movie) before reading this book. I have a hard copy in my library. I also bought the Kindle version and Whispersync. The only thing about the Whispersync was that it was not George Guidall. Christina Delaine (Narrator) I was interested in the stories about weaving and found this book: Navaho Neighbors Thank you, Anne Hillerman