Status Updates From A Thief of Time: A Leaphorn...

Still feeling like a slow start, with a lot of the mopeyness of the last one carrying over. Big changes have happened and they're significant, but also that story advanced entirely offstage between books, so it's not a journey we've accompanied Leaphorn on, we're just having to sit with the mopeyness of the aftermath as we're told what happened while we were away. It makes for dull reading.

Seems to me that the song played on the flute has partially revealed the killer in the first chapter, since he knows the victim. I hope this was an intentional clue, and that we're not going to spend the entire book trying to figure out what's already obvious, as in previous books.