Tony Hillerman’s Navajo Land

August 8, 2013 · by Brenda Lloyd | in Field Trips | tagged Canyon de Chelly, Four Corners region, Jimmy Chee, Joe Leaphorn, mystery novels, mystery series, Native Americans, Navajo Land, petroglyph, Shiprock, Tony Hillerman, Window Rock | 4 Comments

My trip to the Southwest this summer took me to the Navajo Nation, where mystery writer Tony Hillerman set his Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee books. I saw first-hand the sculpted landscape and the people that make his novels so engaging for me. Tony Hillerman, who died in 2008, wrote 18 books in the popular Navajo mystery […]

A Swedish Mystery Series Without Tattoos

July 24, 2013 · by Janet Weeks | in Book Reviews | tagged Camilla Lackberg, Fiction translations, mystery series, Steven T. Murray, Swedish mysteries, The Ice Princess, The Preacher, The Stonecutter, The Stranger | 4 Comments

When I was five and my girlfriend Judy was four, we used to play movie stars. I was the blonde Marilyn Monroe, and she was the dark-haired beauty Jane Russell. Over the years, I confess, I have been rather disappointed that my features bore less and less resemblance to Miss Monroe. While my dress did […]