Book Review: The Sinister Pig, by Tony Hillerman

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One-line summary: Leaphorn and Chee are back and getting long in the tooth, like this series, in a non-thrilling non-mystery involving drug smuggling and theft of oil royalties from Indian lands.

Comments

[ardys_the_ghoul]

he was kind of tired of writing the same characters and similar plots over and over. But like a lot of authors, either the muse still poked him or popular demand and the lure of more money did

So many authors fall into that trap--and I call it a "trap" because even if they do write more books, you can usually tell that their heart isn't really in it any more.

My favorite example of that is Sherlock Holmes. Doyle killed him off to make sure he wouldn't have to write any more stories about him, and popular demand/the money forced him to resurrect him. Popular opinion seems to be that the stories pre-Reichenbach were much better than post-Reichenbach--apart from Hound of the Baskervilles, considered one of Doyle's best, which was written after Holmes "died." But it was supposed to have taken place before the show-down with Prof. Moriarty, and Doyle hadn't actually commited to bringing Holmes back when he wrote it.