Initially, Leaphorn is skeptical about Chee, assuming that cops don’t get shot at for no reason. This chain of events brings the two together as they investigate these seemingly unrelated incidents.
While Leaphorn is trying to crack a lead in three unsolved homicides someone makes an attempt on Jim Chee’s life by blasting three shotgun holes in his mobile home while he is sleeping. While both of these characters are compelling in their own right, their pairing in Skinwalkers brings together one of the genre’s greatest detective teams. Joe Leaphorn and the next three ( People of Darkness, The Dark Wind, and The Ghostway) feature OfficerJim Chee. The first three books in the series ( The Blessing Way, Dance Hall of the Dead, and Listening Woman) feature Lt.
Hillerman created a terrific mileu for his detective stories and Leaphorn and Chee are great, complex characters. While the quality of the novels up through The Ghostway was a bit uneven every book has been a lot of fun to read.
Reading the first 6 novels was definitely an interesting and enjoyable endeavor. I read the series in the 1990’s but in a rather haphazard way and am now quite certain that there are one or two that I did not read. After reading an old interview with Tony Hillerman late last year, I decided to re-read the Leaphorn and Chee novels in chronological order.
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