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Listening Woman

by Tony Hillerman

A police investigation meets Navajo spiritual warnings

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  • Critical praise

    Praised by The Washington Post as “among the best”

    The Washington Post praises the novel, saying it is among the best of Hillerman’s mysteries.

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A police investigation meets Navajo spiritual warnings

Joe Leaphorn approaches a brutal double murder as a human crime, while Listening Woman’s warnings invoke witches, spirits, and supernatural danger. The investigation’s competing explanations give the mystery its central tension: evidence and a police officer’s reasoning set against a seer’s account of forces beyond ordinary understanding. The case also reaches into a dead man’s concealed past and events from a century earlier, connecting present-day violence with older secrets. As the third Leaphorn and Chee novel, the book brings together police procedural elements, Navajo cultural context, and a mystery whose questions extend beyond identifying a killer.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of police procedurals centered on an investigation.
  • Readers interested in mysteries involving Navajo cultural and spiritual context.
  • Readers seeking a series installment featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and the Navajo Tribal Police.

Themes

Evidence and supernatural beliefSecrets and the pastCrime and investigationNavajo cultural context

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"Hillerman's mysteries are special . . . Listening Woman is among the best."-- Washington Post

The third novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series.

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster in this puzzling murder mystery who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.

Now the solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man's secrets--and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness as Leaphorn's investigation in this classic Navajo mystery leads him farther away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.

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