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Title: Shaman Winter - a disappointment
Review: I've read all three books in this trilogy: "Zia Summer," "Rio Grande Fall" and now "Shaman Winter." Each book was more disappointing than the previous. I had picked up "Zia Summer" because I'd heard good things about Anaya's work and wanted a "different" mystery than the type I usually read. Although "Zia Summer" was a good "long-plane-ride" book, the other two got extremely involved in Sonny's spiritual side and became increasingly "hocus-pocus"; they didn't spend enough time developing the now flaky mystery with Sonny and his nemesis, Raven. The problems Sonny got himself into seemed misplaced and didn't move the mystery along very well and the ending, especially in "Shaman Winter," seemed too make-believe. From now on, I'll stick with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot!
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