I needed this book - I have been reading several other different series, and a chance to get back to Father John and Vicky Holden as they solve today's murder while resolving an 80 year old disappearance and possible murder was a pleasure. Father John has returned to the Wind River Reservation a...
This is another good "Wind River Mystery." When I read a story with Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden, I feel like I have had a visit with friends. (even though these are people I would never meet in my daily life) A white girl, Marcy Morrison, shows up on the reservatio...
Buffalo Bill takes his Wild West show to Europe. Chief Black Heart's Regalia disappears and they blame his adopted son, Sonny Yellow Robe, saying that he stole the articles, sold them and disappeared to live comfortably in Europe. 120 years later....the truth will finally be discovered by Fathe...
The book opens with a re-enactment related to Custer--and the man playing Custer is killed and the Native Americans get blamed--Vicky is hired by the relatives of the dead man nad is unavailable to represent tribal members, so that is a different twist--overall this has been a consistant series, ...
The first chapter tells who the killer was and describes the killer's thoughts while killing. However, it is now up to Catherine McLeod, the reporter, to find the proof of who did it in spite of the fact that the murderer knows how to cover the evidence. I enjoyed the descriptions of Denver and...
The Drowning Man (A Wind River Reservation Mystery)
I enjoyed the story but felt there to be a lot of redundancy in the expressing of emotions and explanations of relationships through the book. Seemed to be done in order to create more drama. (I know that I am not explaining this well, sorry.). It was as if the author thought the reader would ...
The Eagle Catcher is the first book in the Wind River Reservation mystery series by Margaret Coel. It deals with an Irish priest who, after falling into disgrace from addiction to alcohol and so forth, was sent to a small reservation where the Arapaho people live.We begin in the present-day of th...
A mystery about the high stakes of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which allows Native tribes to recover their treasures from museums and gain compensation for losses. Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden and her confidante, Jesuit priest John O’Malley investigate the disappear...
Margaret Coel's mysteries "shouldn't be missed by anyone interested in either new trends in mystery writing or contemporary American Indian culture. She?s a master at both." —Tony HillermanFather John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return to face a brutal crime of greed, false promise...
According to legend, Sacajawea—the Native American woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition through the American wilderness—is buried on the Wind River Reservation. Now, a college professor—and longtime friend of Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden—has disappeared while seeking the truth b...
Lawyer Vicky Holden, a member of the Arapaho Tribe, is on her way to meet a man who tells her he knows something that could have critical impact on the Tribe when she sees him run down on a downtown Denver street. The police think it’s a random hit and run, but she can’t let go of it.Several hun...
Father O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden must uncover a baby-selling scheme at a clinic forty years ago."Suspenseful...Solid characters and a keen sense of place...keep this tale humming." --Publishers Weekly
Father John O'Malley comes across the corpse lying in a ditch beside the highway. When he returns with the police, it is gone. The Arapahos of the Wind River Reservation speak of Ghost Walkers—tormented souls caught between the earth and the spirit world, who are capable of anything.Then, within ...
Enjoyable listen to this Margaret Coel mystery involving Father John and lawyer Vicki Holden. This story goes back and forth in time. There was once a photographer sent to the West by the Smithsonian Institute to take photos of the native Indians/native Americans in their habitat. Edward Curtis m...
In 1973, Liz Plenty Horses was accused of betraying the militant American Indian Movement, known as AIM, to the FBI after the death of one of their members. She went into hiding with her baby daughter, never to be seen again. Now, a skeleton with a bullet hole in the back of the skull has been di...
Most of the players were Arapahos, but some white faces bobbed about, tourists in shorts and tee shirts, who had ventured off the highways and into the center of the reservation. The restaurant was in a back room, booths and tables with a few people working on hamburgers and toasted ham-and-chees...
Odors of hot grease, fried meat, and coffee hung over the counter that stretched along the rear. A few booths lined the plate glass windows on either side of the door. The place was empty. The lunch crowd, if there had been one, had moved on, leaving behind wet traces of boot prints on the yellow...
Vicky Holden followed the gray-uniformed guard through the cell block of the Fremont County jail. The crash of a steel door behind her echoed off the cement-block walls and metal bars on either side of the corridor. The air was thick with odors of sweat and disinfectant. Someone was shouting abov...