“If you had the power to pick your next-door neighbors, you would pick Tony and Marie Hillerman. They are smart, funny, compassionate, unpretentious human beings God gave us as something to strive toward.”
Jim Belshaw, Albuquerque Journal
NewMexiKen has read most of Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee mysteries, and more, and I’ve been wanting to say something about him since his death at age 83 Sunday here in Albuquerque. I’ll let Belshaw’s line serve.