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Narrator: George Guidall
Format: Unabridged CD
Publisher: Harperaudio
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $14.99
Discs: 5
Synopsis
The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenaged girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and witches. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn knows his people and begins an investigation that leads to the most violent confrontation of his career.
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Reviews
I may be suffering from too much advance praise, but I found this, my first Hillerman novel, to be charming yet unengaging. Ultimately, the bad guy is just too awful to be completely believable and the good guys are without blemish (or even much personality). The Zen-like Navajo mindset and the bits of Navajo culture are interesting and add color, but they can't entirely cover up a plot that isn't quite believable. Mr. Guildall does an adequate job of reading the story. His relatively flat delivery captures the calm patience of the Navajos but doesn't do much to breathe life into the story.