Mystery Book # 37 Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman

I'm finding that a number of the books on the top 100 mystery books list are quite inconsequential and follow the whole "police procedural" thing pretty closely. At least this one was short. Dance Hall of the Dead in the second in a series of books about a Navajo policeman that solves crimes on his reservation. The setting was different and I enjoyed that but the rest was pretty routine. Before the end I figured out who the killer was because in these procedurals it is never the most obvious person and always someone that was questioned early on in the process. Also, the cop doesn't succeed in his one goal of finding another character before he gets murdered... which is fine in that I don't mind a downer of an ending, but the cop just shrugs it off. Basically he accomplishes absolutely nothing by the end. Let's say this gets a C+, and that's being generous.