THE SHAPE SHIFTER—Tony Hillerman—Another fun/fine Hillerman mystery set in the Southwest U.S., featuring heros Joe Leaphorn with almost cameo appearances by Jim Chee and Bermie Manuelito (now a married couple). A Navajo rug, allegedly destroyed in a fire, turns up on the wall in a rich man's house. Using the rug as a base, in solving this potential crime as well as more than a few murders, Hillerman gives insight into the Navajo (and other tribes) views toward good and evil, the creation, the relationship of man to the rest of the world, etc. Good reading from many levels.