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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting idea but honestly so short that with some editing it could almost have been a short story. Just winding down the series with the old retired Navajo police Lt Joe Leaphorn now marginally involved in the goings-on, and mostly by phone. <br/><br/>This could have been so much more but perh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28630617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a selection of the month from my local book group. While I enjoyed it, I have read many of Tony Hillerman's books and would consider this one very average. Joe Leaphorn, a primary character in earlier books is now retired, but makes a cameo/walk-on appearance in this book, playing no signif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65935021">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This mystery is one of Hillerman’s collection of mysteries set in the Navaho/Hopi lands of Arizona/New Mexico/Utah.  One side benefit of reading this stories is what the reader learns about historical and contemporary Hope and Navaho culture.  Hillerman has created two attractive sleuths, former f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69552652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My grandma had been bugging me to read the Tony Hillerman books for awhile and I found this one in a Reader's Digest.  It started off kind of slow, got good, and then got a little bit predictable.  It's written in an older style and when I'm in the mood for that type of book I like it.  I liked read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55486222">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An okay way to pass some time, but nothing to highly recommend. A little tighter than some other of his recent mysteries, but nothing like the first Leaphorn/Chee mysteries. As others have said, the native American culture is no longer central to his plots, only background color. I wish he had staye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54826363">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is based on fact, a plane crash in the 1950s in the Grand Canyon, along with Native American Lore/History of the Hopi Tribe.  Excellent read and well worth the time.  I learned more about the Hopi Tribes and their birth to the world, their heaven.  Wonderful.  Having traveled this summer i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72041504">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is so sad to think that there will be no more books from Tony Hillerman.  I'm glad therefore that I have collected a number of his tales about Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.  They can really make you feel that you are there in the Southwest looking for clues.  A delightful read!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Hillerman book but I loved it as it was written about a familiar place, the canyon area of Arizona.  I felt like I was at the bottom of the canyons, a place I've never been, from Tony's descriptive writing.  I love the southwest, so I loved his book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Tony Hillerman book I've read. It was interesting...especially that so many of the places where the story takes place are places I've been our close to home (Flagstaff, AZ). Not the type book that makes me super anxious to read another.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I agree with Lorraine that this was a enjoyable light read.  And I like reading stories that are based in places I have visited.  The Grand Canyon is such a place.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting little story, light summer read. Enjoyed the story though, which unfolds near the Grand Canyon. Carol, if you would care to read this, I'll save it til fall.]]></body>
    
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