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The entire series of books is out in audio, and I thought I was ready for it, but I guess I wasn't. I arrived home from a jaunt back to Philadelphia, where we met our new grandbaby, whose name is Lola (no, she is not named after Henry's Thunderbird), to find a packet on the porch from Viking/Penguin containing four copies of the unabridged, 11 CD, thirteen-and-a half-hour version of The Cold Dish. After hauling in all the luggage, feeding the horses, and making a fire, I figured the CDs were thawed out enough to play.

Tony Hillerman warned me that it would be a strange experience but that I was in good hands with Recorded Books and George Guidall. He was right on both accounts. I went back in the office and put in the first CD, figuring moderation was the ticket in all things. I came back into the kitchen and sat down to take note. I'd spoken with George about a number of the pronunciations of the Crow and Cheyenne languages, and he'd impressed me as one of the most detailed and prepared performers with whom I'd ever spoken, so I was prepared to be impressed, and I was.