January Book Club: The Skinwalkers

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Date/Time:

Mon, January 11, 2016
06:30PM - 08:30PM

Venue:

Ettore's European Bakery and Restaurant

Location:

2376 Fair Oaks Blvd., Sacramento CA 95825
Map address

Registration Period:

10/31/2015-01/11/2016

Price:

Pay for your own food and drinks

Contact:

Martha Alvarez, '08, MA '09

martha.alvarez@alumni.stanford.edu

805-588-5594

This is one of many Navajo police mystery books by Tony Hillerman featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee.  Hillerman’s writing is noted for the cultural details he provides about his subjects: Hopi, Zuni, European-American, federal agents, and especially Navajo Tribal Police.  His works reflect his appreciation of the natural wonders of the American Southwest and his appreciation of its people, particularly the Navajo. His mystery novels are usually set in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and Arizona. Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee’s trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach.  Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft, and blood . . . and into the dark and mystical domain of evil beings of Navajo legend, the “skinwalkers.”