Iain’s Reviews > Skinwalkers > Status Update

The nerfing of Jim Chee. We've had three books of Jim working through mysteries mostly on his own, and while his record of actually resolving them himself wasn't great, there was a sense that it was due to difficult circumstances more than incompetence. Now Leaphorn's back and described as a "hotshot," and Chee is the dumb and kind of petulant officer who doesn't share info that's finally a link between cases.

At last Leaphorn and Chee have met.

Don't know if this will prove to be a spoiler but at 15% in it looks like the ambitious doctor/spiritual diagnostician is using the influence of his position to weaponize the superstitions of his patients and send them after his enemies. He's put a hit-by-witchhunt on Chee.

Off to a scary start... both for the violence and the promised return of Mary.