Dance Hall of the Dead

It seemed to him that a single homicide could be thought of as a unit - as something in which an act of violence contained beginning and end, cause and result. But two homicides linked by time, place, participants and, most important, motivation presented something more complex. The unit became a se......more

This is the second of Tony Hillerman's celebrated books featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police. Later, Leaphorn would be assisted by a younger officer, Jim Chee, but this book, which won The Edgar Award, belongs to Leaphorn alone. A young Zuni Indian boy, Ernesto Cata, disappea......more

I first read this book as a teenager back in the 1980s. I loved this series! I read a few books before life intervened and I no longer had a lot of time to read. College ...relationships ....marriage ...work....kids. Those things tend to suck up so much time that books take a back seat. Now that the......more

4.5 Stars for Dance Hall of the Dead: Leaphorn & Chee #2 (audiobook) by Tony Hillerman read by George Guildall. I really like that this is set in the southwest. The series has a really unique perspective. It’s interesting to see what it’s like to be a cop on the reservation.......more

Audiobook performed by George Guidall Book number two in Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn series has Joe investigating the disappearance of two Native-American boys. His efforts are complicated by the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people (Joe is Navajo). There are also federal agen......more