The Blessing Way
1970 novel by Tony Hillerman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Blessing Way is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the first in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series. First published in 1970, it introduces the character of officer Joe Leaphorn.
Author | Tony Hillerman |
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Cover artist | Mozelle Thompson[1] |
Country | United States of America |
Language | English |
Series | Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn Navajo Tribal Police Series |
Genre | Crime fiction |
Set in | Navajo Nation |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Publication date | 1970 |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) & Audio book |
Pages | 306 |
ISBN | 0061808350 |
Followed by | Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) |
Two anthropology professors from New Mexico plan a summer research trip on the Navajo Reservation. Bergen McKee meets his college friend Joe Leaphorn, now a police officer, there. McKee's interest is the Navajo witches and the role they play in the culture. He learns of one on his first day of interviews, who unexpectedly visits his campsite in the night, beginning a saga of peril for him. Leaphorn has a murdered young man as his case, which intertwines with McKee's encounters with a true Navajo witch.