The Way of the Bear (2023) by Anne Hillerman
Good Reads meta-data is 281 pages rated 4.17 by 634 litizens.
Genre: Krimi.
DNA: Navajo
Verdict: Overcooked.
Tagline: The evil Barbies did it.
Mostly Bernie and her bottomless portfolio of worries – career, sister, mother, neighbours, weather, parking, etc. If it’s there she will worry about it.
Over-plotted, too much exposition, too much ‘How I am feeling.’
The snow and quick changing weather certainly dominate as are the distances with attendant loss of cell phone coverage but all rather mechanically.
Leaphorn’s name is on the cover but has but a few lines on the telephone at the end of the book.
The two villains were obvious from the get-go. Both quickly crossed the border of my suspension of disbelief. Each seemed too incompetent to pull off anything.