num_pages: 6
description: Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has been called on occasionally by his former colleagues to help them solve a puzzling crime. And Leaphorn, aided by Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time, the problem is with an old case of Joe's ––his "last case", unsolved and haunting him. And with Chee and Bernie on their honeymoon, Leaphorn is on his own. The case involved a priceless Navajo rug gone missing. Now, years later, Leaphorn is picking up the threads of a crime he'd thought impossible to solve. Hillerman is at the top of his form in this atmospheric and stunning novel.
language: English
title: The Shape Shifter
titlecomplete: The Shape Shifter (Navajo Mysteries, #18)
characters: Mel Bork, Jim Chee, Shewnack and more, Joe Leaphorn, Bernie Manuelito
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Native Americans, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Westerns, Fiction
ratings_count: 9054
series: Leaphorn & Chee
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Western Short Novel
publisher: HarperAu