![]() ![]() He tells them his old one was stolen, but, curiously, the expensive silver concho hatband on it was not stolen. At the trading post, McKee and Leaphorn see a tall Navajo man buying a new hat. His victim survives, so Leaphorn spreads the word at a trading post to entice Luis to come in. A young man, Luis Horseman, thinking he had killed a man in a fight, drops out of sight. Leaphorn is a Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant. Leaphorn has a murdered young man as his case, which intertwines with McKee's encounters with a true Navajo witch.Īnthropologist and professor Bergen McKee comes to the Navajo Reservation to research tales of witches and visit his college friend, Joe Leaphorn. He learns of one on his first day of interviews, who unexpectedly visits his campsite in the night, beginning a saga of peril for him. McKee's interest is the Navajo witches and the role they play in the culture. Bergen McKee meets his college friend Joe Leaphorn, now a police officer, there. Two anthropology professors from New Mexico plan a summer research trip on the Navajo Reservation. First published in 1970, it introduces the character of officer Joe Leaphorn. The Blessing Way is the first crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman. Print (hardcover and paperback) & Audio book ![]()
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