{"id":1896,"date":"2023-05-17T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:51:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:51:27","slug":"the-people-of-darkness-by-tony-hillerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"The People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0061099155.01._SX540_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is the fourth book in the Chee\/Leaphorn stories, I&#8217;m filling in a few books I missed when reading the series. Jim Chee has an offer to join the FBI which he is considering, or to continue his studies to become a Hataalii, a tribal medicine man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a backstory of an explosion at a well logging event that killed a number of people. Years later a bomb explodes in a pickup as a tow driver is hooking it up for towing, the target was a man already dying from cancer. Then someone steels a keepsake box from a rich man, B. J. Vines, leaving many valuables that are in sight. Chee&#8217;s first involvement was when Mrs. Vines asked Chee to recover the box. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The People of Darkness are involved, somehow. This is a religious sect that worships the mole. It is not recognized by most Navajo for its use of peyote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his investigation, he finds himself and a woman, Mary Landon, who finds herself wandering with Chee during his investigations, the target of an assassin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The locals believe Mr. Vines is a witch, Chee must find a solution that satisfies the local cultures and the white men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is excellent and rich in Navajo culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth book in the Chee\/Leaphorn stories, I&#8217;m filling in a few books I missed when reading the series. Jim Chee has an offer to join the FBI which he is considering, or to continue his studies to become a Hataalii, a tribal medicine man. There is a backstory of an explosion at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[86,88],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","tag-jim-chee","tag-tony-hillerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}