Spider Woman's Daughter
2013 • 301 pages

Ratings8

Average rating3.8

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It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan careen into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is put in charge of finding the shooter.

Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case involving Chee’s former boss and partner, retired lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, may hold the key to the shooting. Digging into the old investigation with fresh eyes and new urgency, husband and wife find themselves inching closer to the truth with every clue . . . and closer to a killer who will do anything to prevent justice from taking its course.


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Series

25 primary books

#19 in Leaphorn & Chee

Leaphorn & Chee is a 25-book series with 25 released primary works first released in 1870 with contributions by Tony Hillerman, Steve Levine, and Anne Hillerman.

#1
The Blessing Way
#2
Dance Hall of the Dead
#3
Listening Woman
#4
People of darkness
#5
The Dark Wind

Featured Series

8 primary books

#1 in Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito

Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito is a 8-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Anne Hillerman.

#1
Spider Woman's Daughter
#3
Song of the Lion
#4
Cave of Bones
#5
The Tale Teller
#6
Stargazer
#7
The Sacred Bridge
#8
The Way of the Bear
#9
Lost Birds

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As good as any other one in the series.

September 2, 2015

Anne Hillerman's storytelling skills aren't quite as smooth as her father's, but this is a good first novel and I think she'll grow into the world of Leaphorn, Chee and Bernie. She made a good decision to focus on Officer Manuelito who has a more complex life than her colleagues.

November 11, 2013