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    Rock with Wings: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
    Rock with Wings: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
    Rock with Wings: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
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    Rock with Wings: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

    Written by Anne Hillerman

    Narrated by Christina Delaine

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    Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!  

    Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman’s Daughter.

    Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them—one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley.

    Chee follows a series of seemingly random and cryptic clues that lead to a missing woman, a coldblooded suspect, and a mysterious mound of dirt and rocks that could be a gravesite. Bernie has her hands full managing the fallout from a drug bust gone wrong, uncovering the origins of a fire in the middle of nowhere, and looking into an ambitious solar energy development with long-ranging consequences for Navajo land.

    Under the guidance of their mentor, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Bernie and Chee will navigate unexpected obstacles and confront the greatest challenge yet to their skills, commitment, and courage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9780062394873
    Author

    Anne Hillerman

    ANNE HILLERMAN is the bestselling author of the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series. Lost Birds is her ninth novel in the series, which was created by her father, Tony Hillerman. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Tucson, Arizona, and is at work on her next novel.

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    • 3/5
      I really like immersing myself in the 4 corners area mysteries, and am grateful that Anne has continued with her father's series. While she does a good job combining the area. the characters and a good escapism mystery, she's portraying the characters in her own light,changing them.
    • 4/5
      I'm finding that mystery/suspense readers have a range of expectations from the books they read. Some want nothing but action, action, action. Others like a lot of character development and background exposition along with the action. Anne Hillerman's Rock with Wings will frustrate the action, action, action crowd. This book starts with a tense scene in which Navajo cop Bernie Manuelito stops a speeding motorist. She finds a box of dirt in his car. He tries to bribe her and she ends up arresting him. Then we go into a rather lengthy exploration of Bernie's relationship with her sister and mother, and her husband Chee's relationship with a clansman. I am interested in native culture and social relationships so I continued to be interested. Eventually we get around to some action for both these tribal policemen who have to solve mysteries and confront danger. I enjoyed reading this book, and I will continue to read Anne Hillerman.
    • 4/5
      Bernie and Chee are apart for most of this book, each with their own mysteries to solve. I found the story a good distraction and enjoyable read. It is always pleasant to visit the southwest with the Hillermans, Tony or Anne.
    • 2/5
      Story focuses on Chee and Bernie, providing more background on their life together and apart. Somewhat disjointed and hard to follow.
    • 4/5
      Rock with Wings is a good suspenseful novel. It takes place in today's time on the Navajo reservation and on the Navajo reservation. Even though the Navajo police officers each has a very large territory that he or she is responsible, with little resources, they are still able to solve difficult cases. From the first page through the last, the reader is kept enthralled in the solving of the cases. This is a good story, highly recommended and more than deserving of its four stars.
    • 4/5
      I’m a sucker for stories about the Southwest, and this is a good enough read. It is pretty light. It is written very much like a J.A. Jance Joanna Brady novel; nothing earth shattering, but enjoyable characters and an interesting story. It’s nice to spend a few hours reading about Navajo life, culture and mythologies as well as Navajoland.I apparently didn’t remember that the Lieutenant had been shot in the head, or I haven’t read that book yet, but I like how his character was worked into Rock With Wings.
    • 4/5
      This is the second in the continued series featuring Bernie Manuelito that Anne Hillerman began after her father's death.This time Jim Chee is loaned to the police force at Monument Valley, where a Hollywood film company is filming a zombie movie against the iconic backgrounds made famous by so many classic western movies.Bernie remains in New Mexico, split between her increasing responsibilities to her family and a baffling case where the only evidence is a box of dirt. Her mother continues to need more care as she ages; her irresponsible sister is an alcoholic.I missed the interactions between Chee and Bernie since they were separated for most of the book.The real star of the book is the environment - both the southwestern landscape and the Navajo culture. Unlike her father, Ms Hillerman often focuses on the dark side of reservation life - the grinding poverty , drugs and alcohol. It makes for a less photogenic, but probably more realistic picture of life for modern Indians.There were also a couple of plot points that really bothered me. First, Bernie took several small worthless items from a box of evidence. Really? Secondly a bad guy security guard manhandles a sixteen year old girl and then forces her to flip up her shirt "Wild Girl Style" while he takes photos. He says he will post the photos on the internet if she tells anyone. Jim Chee refers to this incident at least three times as 'embarrassing the girl'. To me this sounds more serious than that. Assault? Child abuse? Extortion? I have no idea, but for a cop to call it 'embarrassment' bothers me.I did not enjoy this as much as Ms Hillerman's first book in this new series, but definitely will continue with the series.
    • 2/5
      It’s still no Tony Hillerman. This was told from the POV of both Chee and Bernie Manuelito, and it seemed rather scattered as a result. The way the various plot threads came together and were resolved felt almost like an afterthought. Bernie’s character is being fleshed out more, but she’s still not as interesting a character as Chee and Leaphorn were in Tony Hillerman’s hands.
    • 4/5
      Chee and Bernie try to take a short vacation but it does not go as planned. Problems with Bernie's mother and sister, a local investigation for Chee. Leaphorn is getting better.
    • 3/5
      On the whole, I'm pleased that the series is continuing under Anne Hillerman, and I think she's doing a reasonably good job with it. I feel there's a little something stiff in the characters, a certain formality of phrase that I can read as traditional Navaho culture and thinking, since I am ignorant of that culture, but that somehow makes me nostalgic for the Chee and Manuelito of previous years.

      Still, it was a good story in an impeccably wrought setting and I'm glad to have the characters live on, even in slightly altered form.
    • 5/5
      I'm a big Tony Hillerman fan so it pains me to say...Anne has already surpassed her father in just her second book.

      She has Chee and Bernie working two different plotlines only to have them merge unexpectedly at the end. She keeps the level of "Who dunnit?" suspense high throughout the book while developing our favorite characters. What I liked best is that Anne has upped her game in including the native culture touches that made her dad's writing so enjoyable. She even includes a short Navajo glossary at the end.

      Great book...can't wait for her next!
    • 3/5
      ROCK WITH WINGS delivers a slowly evolving plot which is not as exciting or art-intriguing as SPIDER WOMAN'S DAUGHTER, yet still works as a good mystery...except for the unsatisfying climax.Regarding Chee and Bernie:1. enough with the unfunny "Cheeseburger" and sister's nagging failures. "Unit" is also way over-worked.2. Why don't these two EAT better?From the deaths and sickness on the reservation, they have got to know that their diet of SPAM (geez), hamburgers, pork chops, and Coke (is someone paying for this frequent mention?) is a mounting disaster, no?So great to have humor and updates on Leaphorn!
    • 1/5
      I could not find much about this book I liked outside of Chee and Leaphorn. The story did not hold my interest and as a result I did not finish reading it.
    • 4/5
      A good entry with a little too much of sister and her problems. Still, worth a little annoyance, to keep these characters and their outstanding fictional world alive and well
    • 3/5
      Hillerman takes up her dad's characters in a murder plot based around a movie production on the res. The plot seemed to wander around, too many side plots for me.
    • 4/5
      The second of Anne Hillerman's books about Chee and Bernie, this continues the story of their relationship, with Leaphorn in the background recovering from his injuries from the first book. Chee and Bernie's honeymoon is put on hold when Bernie needs to return home to take care of her mother since her sister has again disappeared. She becomes a bit obsessed by the odd bahvior of a driver she pulls over for a traffic stop. Meanwhile Chee is called on to help another department deal with the disappearance of a woman from a film crew. Although the mysteries seem a bit farfetched and scattered, especially since they are pretty much separate, the development of these characters is engaging, and I'll look for future books in the series.
    • 4/5
      I liked the alternating storylines of Jim and Bernie, though I would have liked to see them together more. And I was really happy to see Leaphorn beginning to resume his place in figuring out the crimes. I wasn't really convinced by the explanations to the "mysteries" but it was fun getting there.
    • 4/5
      Anne Hillerman had a 5 star read for this one until she lost me at the end. I liked her characters and her description of the setting was fabulous. I didn't mind her sending Chee and Bernie in two different directions. I thought she intertwined their storylines well. The wrap-up of Chee's case was handled well and I enjoyed the ending to his mysterious bones at the gravesite. Bernie's case was going well for me until the very end. It was a little too dramatic for my taste. But, I still enjoyed the story enough to keep it at four stars. I will definitely read more from her.
    • 3/5
      I'm trying to still figure this out..... Jim Chee & Bernadette Manuelito have come back from their "honeymoon", to go out to Monument Valley to help Jim's cousin who is in the process of setting up a guided tour business.While there, Chee is called in to locate a missing woman from a movie set and ends up w/ a murder and and unexplained many years old mystery.Bernie stops and arrests a suspicious driver who offers her a bribe... only to find the FBI are very interested in this man....Bernie's sister is a major piece of work & disappears often, leaving their ailing mother alone...Lieutenant Leaphorn is recovering from a bullet to the head and learning to communicate via computer (word programs).... he is asked by both Chee & Bernie to help with their respective cases...It took me quite awhile to finish this book. It did not really hold my interest, too much going on in too many different places with too many people.
    • 3/5
      On the one hand, I do love getting to spend time on the Navajo reservation via this book's loving sense of place. Unfortunately, the mystery was pretty weak. I'll keep reading this series, but I can't really recommend this one as a mystery.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely love these stories, so well done! Please Anne Hillerman keep on writing! Your readers are really taken by your stories! Christina Delang does an outstanding job on the audio version of these books! Both of you deserve a Gold Star!!!
    • 4/5
      The second Leaphorn/Chee book written by the daughter of Tony Hillerman who began the series. Once again Jim Chee's wife, Bernie, shares the main character spot with her husband. He is in Monument Valley working with a movie production team and visiting his cousin. Bernie is at home, working and trying to care for her mother and sister. Leaphorn continues to slowly recuperate from the bullet wound he suffered in the previous book. The descriptions of this beautiful part of our country are excellent and keep me turning pages missing those places I know and love. Better than the first book and I hope the series continues.
    • 4/5
      I agree almost completely with an earlier reviewer who noted the s/he was very impressed with the book until the very end. I enjoy the character development--I really feel like I am beginning to know the main, continuing characters, the descriptions, and the insight into the Navajo culture. The somewhat confusing ending does not significantly detract from my enthusiasm for this author and I look forward to reading other books by her. One added comment: the reader for this book is excellent. I continue to be amazed at how readers such as this one can create so many personas and keep them straight.
    • 4/5
      Four stars definitely not for the solutions to the mysteries, but because I love the series and the settings in Shiprock and Monument Valley. The alternating cases are interesting, but the resolutions are contrived.
    • 3/5
      Working separate ends of what turns out to be related cases Bernadette and Jim Chee also invigorate the recovering Lt. Leaphorn and deal with family problems.
    • 3/5
      Readable, eventful. Bernie & Chee are just static nice-nice, the beauty of the landscape is extolled to the max, but the effects are really all told not shown. In this novel the separation of Bernie & Chee for about a week serves to have two mysteries going with very slight connection pasted in at the end. Except for borderline excessive twee, not painful.
    • 4/5
      Anne Hillerman writes so much like her father that it makes you wonder if she wrote all the books attributed to Tony Hillerman. How wonderful, the calmness, quiet, stillness, the Southwest Indian culture permeating each page-- keep writing, Anne!!
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the earlier book in this series (Spider Woman's Daughter) by Anne Hillerman, much more than Rock with Wings. However, I became engaged enough to finish it .... and I definitely liked the story enough that I will read others by Anne Hillerman.
    • 3/5
      It is always a joy to join these characters. I have been reading the Hillerman family novels for so many years that Chee and Leaphorn seem to be old friends. Although the Anne writes well, there is just something that her father's novels had which is missing from hers. Still I enjoy her continuation of the series and especially her focus on Bernie Manuelito.
    • 4/5
      I love Anne Hillerman's style which puts me into the culture with the dialog and the life style. The mysteries that the husband and wife solve and their relationship were well done. I will go back and read her first book. I also want to catch up on the books by Tony Hillerman that I missed along the way. I do like the setting and characters.