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    The Ghostway

    By Tony Hillerman

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

    The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee series—an electrifying thriller of revenge, secrets, and murder.

    “One of the best of the series.”—New York Times Book Review

    Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.

    This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061800375
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    Tony Hillerman

    TONY HILLERMAN served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and received the Edgar and Grand Master Awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indian’s Ambassador Award, the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and the Navajo Tribal Council Special Friend of the Dineh Award. A native of Oklahoma, Tony Hillerman lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, until his death in 2008.

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    • 4/5
      Jim Chee is on the road looking for a teenage runaway and as he ponders the facts of the dead man at her grandfather’s hogan he realizes she may be in danger. While Jim Chee is investigating he is frequently brought short by the problems that have developed between him and Mary Landon, will he leave the reservation? Interesting series with great background scenery and folklore.
    • 4/5
      Mainly a good plot with a theme of using the WItness Program in a sneaky fashion to hide a Navajo. The excitement as the story neared the ending felt a bit rushed but the twists were engaging. Plot had a few annoying distractions: Chee's preoccupation with his floundering love life was boring; the runaway student, Margaret Sosi, was unrealistically adroit at eluding capture and fooling a seasoned assassin. The Navajo lore and philosophy brought the novel up to a 4-star rating.
    • 3/5
      Tribal Policeman, Jim Chee, sets off to chase a bad guy. The search takes jim and his 'res pickup truck to downtown L.A. and back. Jim meets Mary and falls for her. As always, we learn something about Navajo culture as the death revolves around a spirited hogan and the difference between reservation and outside Navajos. Entertaining book, more for it's culture than for it's whodunit genre. As always,Chee solves the mystery in both Indian and White Man ways.
    • 5/5
      A shooting at the Laundromat at the Navajo Nations leaves one man dead, one wounded. When SGT Jim Chee is sent to investigate a missing girl and a stolen horse, he finds the man who was wounded, dead, buried in Navajo tradition on the mountain. But not quite... Being a shaman in training himself, he spots the discrepancy in the body preparation which no true traditional would have made. He finds another puzzle. Why would a traditional Navajo like Ashey Begay, make this kind of mistake in burying his kin? And where was he? This puzzle takes Chee off the reservation to Los Angeles in pursuit of the missing girl, and the old man. He crosses paths twice with an assassin who is assigned to kill the girl and all the other witnesses in a crime committed in the big city of LA. In all of his searching, Chee struggles with the entanglement with a white school teacher who is bent on marrying him and making a white man out of him. As usual, Hillerman weaves a compelling story in great detail to the weather, the landscape, and within the backdrop of Navajo land. Great read
    • 4/5
      The Ghostway is a good deep thinking mystery novel. The characters are all believable. The settings are well described. The situations that the characters are in are plausible. The Indian way is well described and easy to imagine. The Ghostway is a good book and deserves the four stars that have been awarded to it in this review.
    • 5/5
      Nice
    • 4/5
      After a man is shot at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat, Tribal Policeman Jim Chee sets off on a search that moves from a death hogan to the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles and through to a Ghost Way ceremony for one (or more...) of the story's characters. As usual, Hillerman's stories are filled with interesting details about Navajo life and culture, although this one widens the scope to include the FBI and their secret going-on as well. The personal issue that Chee is dealing with (stay with Mary and leave the Reservation or leave Mary and stay in close contact with his culture) is described in a realistic ways with the pros and cons of both decisions taking turns at winning in Chee's mind. This is a series I've read before and I am very happy that I still like it as much as I did the first time around.
    • 5/5
      There is a murder in Shiprock, NM. Jim Chee can't investigate because the FBI is involved in the case. But he finds an angle, a missing girl who is related to one of the people involved. His investigation takes him to Los Angeles, where we view the white poverty through his eyes. As usual in these books, the Navajo culture is a strong influence on the story. We learn about ghosts, and the ghostway, which is a cleansing ceremony for someone who has been in an infected hogan, by the chindi. A third story line is with Joe's fiancé, Mary Landon. She is pressuring him to leave the reservation and join the FBI. He is torn between the world he knows and loves, and the unknown of the white world. And he is concerned for the Navajo culture, he is one of a very few young people who is studying the old ways. He is working to become a yataalii, a medicine man. If he leaves, that would be a great loss to the tribe. Although the story involving the death and the FBI is the main mystery, the story is more about Jim Chee's struggle to resolve his relationship with Mary. Mary appears very little through the book, but plays a vital part. Tony Hillerman's storytelling is excellent, the pacing is right and he gives a very good feel for the New Mexico area and the Navajo culture. This is an excellent read, and a must-read for any Hillerman fans.
    • 3/5
      This was a decent book, but wouldnt recommend anyone buy it. Very bland and uneventful. I have read books in this "series" before and they have been very good, this one was just very bland.
    • 4/5
      There are three levels that the reader can look at regarding The Ghostway. The actual mystery is the least satisfying part of The Ghostway by far. The ending is convoluted and looses what ever tension Hillerman had been able to develop leading up to the conclusion.The exploration of the Navajo way is really well done though and makes up for some of the let down the reader feels regarding the mystery. Even some of the boring parts where Hillerman has Jim Chee driving all over the reservation, even in blizzard conditions, helps to give the reader a sense of the vastness and the harsh nature of the reservation. To further expand on this theme he has Chee follow a young Navajo girl to Los Angeles where the contrast between the reservation and Los Angeles is only part of what Hillerman wants not only the reader but Jim Chee to see and recognize. There is a part where he has Chee observe a nursing home and recognize that what white people do with the old members of thier families is very different than what the Navajo have learned to do regarding their elders. But the real heart and soul of the exploration into the Navajo way is where the religious aspects intersect with the mystery. This part is very well done as Jim Chee has to question his values and how they have been formed in relationship to his religious beliefs.**Spoiler Alert**But the best part of the book is surely the realtionship between Jim Chee and his white girlfriend, Mary Landon. She does not actually appear in the book very much, but she is in Jim's thoughts at every step of the way. He is struggling with his relationship with her because she wants him to leave the reservation and become an FBI agent. Chee understands why she thinks this is best for them and their future children. And he tries very hard to do this for her throughout the book because he does love her. He knows she loves him and he wants to be able to do this for her. But the trip to Los Angeles and then the pull that his Navajo beliefs continue to have on him as he unravels the mystery, all lead to what we the readers believe about both Jim and Mary. He can not be a white man and she can not be a Navajo woman. They are what they are, even if they do love each other.
    • 5/5
      His use of Officer Chee to bring the reader into the intimacy of the story is superb.
    • 4/5
      Tony Hillerman never disappoints. Besides his usual good detective story, there's lots of interesting information about Navajo burial rites and beliefs associated with chindi, the spirits that may be left behind by the dead.