How long does it take to read The Blessing Way?
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman takes about 5 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Joe Leaphorn
Next: Dance Hall of the Dead
About 5 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 289 pages, about 79,475 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.Joe Leaphorn must stalk a supernatural killer known as the "Wolf-Witch" along a chilling trail of mysticism and murder.When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Navaho Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mouth full of sand at a crime scene seemingly without tracks or clues, he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer. Blood on the rocks . . . A body on the high mesa . . . Leaphorn must stalk the Wolf-Witch along a chilling trail between mysticism and murder.
Subjects: Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Indians of North America, Chee, Jim (Fictitious character, Navajo Indians
