Jim Chee is introduced relatively early on in the series. A little further research and I now know that this is one of the few Hillerman mysteries featuring just Joe Leaphorn his counterpart (and subordinate) Sgt. This ended up being a good introduction, I think, even if it was pretty arbitrary. I started with Listening Woman because I was able to buy it for a dollar. (I was told by an enthusiastic library volunteer in Oro Valley, AZ that I should just start at the beginning and work my way through, but that seemed a little more time consuming than I was ultimately prepared for.) In the end, a discount book rack in Portland, Maine made my decision for me. The problem was I didn't really know where to start. When he died earlier this year, I decided to make like a good Southwesterner and rectify this omission in my reading list. Had it not been for some unfortunate connotations that I had with Hillerman (he was the author of choice for a particularly Wicked Stepmother), I would have most likely read his whole oeuvre by now.
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