I really enjoyed this book. It's a
small volume with a series of essays that Tony Hillerman submitted as
part of Master's work in journalism. They read just as you'd expect
from the premiere Southwest mystery writer of our time – slow,
lazy, and full of humor. They're true tales woven to feel like
fiction and the characters step right out of the terrain of New
Mexico. Funny antics and folk wisdom are interspersed with character
quirks.
The title story is the best, but all of the others held my interest and I read them in a single sitting.
As is my custom with anthologies, I'm including the table of contents in my review
The Great Taos Bank Robbery
The Very Heart of Our Country
We All Fall Down
The Conversion of Cletus Xywanda
The Hunt for the Lost American
Las Trampas
Othello in Union
County
Quijote
in Rio Arriba County
Mr.
Luna's Lazarus Act
- CV Rick, February 2008
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