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Hillerman is a prolific writer, not just of fiction, but also non-fiction (usually on Indian Country issues), and has also edited four anthologies.

Navajo mystery series order: The Blessing Way, in 1970, Dance Hall of the Dead (1973), Listening Woman (1978), People of Darkness (1980), The Dark Wind (1982), The Ghostway (1984). Skinwalkers (1986), A Thief of Time (1988), Talking God (1989), Coyote Waits (1990), Sacred Clowns (1993), The Fallen Man (1996), The First Eagle (1998), Hunting Badger (1999), The Wailing Wind (2002), The Sinister Pig (2003), Skeleton Man (2004)
Coming Soon The Shape Shifter (to be published June 2006).

You'll find excerpts from, and reviews of, four of his more recent books at BookBrowse.

Useful Links:

• About the Hopis
• About the Navajos
• National Parks Service website about the Grand Canyon
• A picture of the Pink Rattlesnake - unique to the Grand Canyon - as mentioned in Skeleton Man.

  This article is from the February 3, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.

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