The Shape Shifter

Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Mysteries, Book 18

By: Tony Hillerman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Lt. Joe Leaphorn, who can't seem to stay retired, investigates a case that takes him back to his earliest days with the Navajo Tribal Police. When Erwin Totter's trading post burned to the ground back in 1965, the news that Ray Shewnack, a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted List, had perished in the blaze drew all available officers to the scene. Joe Leaphorn (Skeleton Man, 2004, etc.) was pulled away from Grandma Peshlakai's, where he'd gone in hopes of recovering the ten gallons of pinyon sap stolen from her. It was a waste of time, Grandma Peshlakai insisted, since the man was certainly dead.

Now Leaphorn's old friend Mel Bork, a private eye in Flagstaff, has disappeared after sending Leaphorn a photograph of a tribal rug that's supposed to have been destroyed in the Totter fire. If the rug survived—and when Leaphorn treks out to Flagstaff to examine it as it hangs on the wall of big-game hunter Jason Delos's lodge—maybe Shewnack, a holdup artist who managed to kill two victims and finger his three accomplices to the police, isn't dead after all. (Kirkus Reviews)

©2006 Tony Hillerman (P)2006 Recorded Books

Amazing performance and storyline!

Great performance and storyline. Was easy to follow along and plot twists were fun and exciting.

The narrator

I found this very informative and would like to listen to more like this. Joe Leaphorn a great character.

As usual, a great read!

The reader makes the Hillerman characters come alive. Thank you and Mr. Hillerman for this book.

Tony hil I’ll reman shape shifter great story

The navah customs were great to learn you should try it you will find wanting more

Hillerman plus TOP narrator!

I’ve been reading the series for decades. Niw, listening to the stories over again, I still find them intriguing. And always learning about First Nations culture.