good book: "The Dark Wind" is a very interesting book. It has a lot of suspense and Hillerman takes you into the book with his descriptions. This book is a murder mystery that keeps you thinking. It also keeps getting weirder as you read.
The book starts with three Hopi Indians walking up a trail and discovering a boot lying in the middle of it. They walk up the trail a little ways more and discover a dead body. The body was reported and picked up some time after the three Hopis discovered it. by the time it was recovered it couldn't be identified. Later in the book Jim Chee (the main character) is told to watch a windmill that has been vandalized two times before. in the middle of the night Chee hears a plane flying low, but cant see any lights from it. a short while later he hears a crash and goes to investigate. When he gets there he finds two people dead and one that is almost dead. He trys to find out what happened form the one that is alive, but he dies before he can say anything.
The book keeps going like this getting Chee mixed up in all of it. Chee knows he didn't do anything wrong, but he is the only one that thinks that he is innocent. Over all I would recommend this book to any body that likes mysteries or that just wants a book that makes you think and makes you feel like your right there with the characters

The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case--a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee's fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather. Performed by Gil Silverbird.
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This is the second of the Jim Chee novels. It is a very solid mystery that has as it's background the shared land between the Navajos and the Hopis. The federal government split the land up between the two tribes and forced each of the two tribes to move off the land that had been determined to belong to the other tribe. This was one of those decisions that ended up with a lot of angry folks on both sides and it would seem to be a perfect setting for a mystery. But the truth is that not much is made of this set up. The religious differences between the two tribes is delved into and the Navajo way of life is again used to some good advantage, but the use of a lot of upset people hardly plays into the plot at all. There is no romantic angst this time for Jim Chee and it does unclutter the story some. Plot points are not hurried and each of them makes sense. Very solid story.

Note: There is a very bad movie based on this book. Joe Leaphorn appears in the movie but he is not in the book. ( )

Beste detective van hem tot nu toe, maar hij schrijft slordig. ( )

No follow up to some of the personal issues of Jim Chee (like the FBI question)! But really good mystery. I enjoyed how all the disparate threads that Chee was working on came together at the end. No mention at all of Leaphorn, but a lot of interaction with Capt. Largo and Cowboy Dashee was introduced. Interesting information about the Hopi-Navajo joint use issue, as well as an outsiders peek into the Hopi culture. Very enjoyable read. ( )