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adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
A Thief of Time brings us both Leaphorn and Chee, investigating two very separate events that are potentially related: the theft of a bulldozer and a missing anthropologist. Chee worried about his relationship with Mary Landon, and Leaphorn is mourning for his wife, Emma, who died suddenly off-page in between Skinwalkers and A Thief of Time.
This being a mystery novel, the bulldozer and the missing anthropologist are connected. The missing anthropologist is hoping to prove where the Anasazi went when they left Chaco, as she thinks she can prove that she's found evidence of a single potter living at Chaco around the time of their migration and at a site not that far away. It's fascinating, her research.
When the bulldozer thieves turn up dead, and a known pot (antiquities) dealer says that he might have, at one point, maybe, sold a pot from an area where it's illegal to dig that might possibly be what the anthropologist was looking for, things get complicated, quickly.
I know I've read this book, probably when I was far too young to really be ready mystery novels, but I had no memory of reading it. And then Leaphorn notes something specific about one of the characters, and I remembered both reading the book, and how it ended (who the murderer is).
This book has a serious loose end (Brigham Houk isn't as dead as people think he is and Leaphorn decides to take care of the man, since his father is dead ), but I'm not sure how Hillerman plans to keep that thread in the later books, if at all.
This being a mystery novel, the bulldozer and the missing anthropologist are connected. The missing anthropologist is hoping to prove where the Anasazi went when they left Chaco, as she thinks she can prove that she's found evidence of a single potter living at Chaco around the time of their migration and at a site not that far away. It's fascinating, her research.
When the bulldozer thieves turn up dead, and a known pot (antiquities) dealer says that he might have, at one point, maybe, sold a pot from an area where it's illegal to dig that might possibly be what the anthropologist was looking for, things get complicated, quickly.
I know I've read this book, probably when I was far too young to really be ready mystery novels, but I had no memory of reading it. And then Leaphorn notes something specific about one of the characters, and I remembered both reading the book, and how it ended (who the murderer is).
This book has a serious loose end (
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail