Read Series: Wind River Reservation
by Author Margaret Coel
The Girl With Braided Hair (2007)
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...
Wife of Moon (2004)
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...
The Ghost Walker (1997)
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 ...
The Lost Bird (2000)
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
The Thunder Keeper (2002)
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...
The Spirit Woman (2001)
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...
The Dream Stalker (1998)
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...
The Story Teller (1999)
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...
The Eagle Catcher (1996)
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...
Eye of the Wolf (2005)
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 Drowning Man (2006)
The Drowning Man (A Wind River Reservation Mystery)
Killing Custer (2013)
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, ...
Buffalo Bill's Dead Now (2012)
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 Spider's Web (2010)
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...
The Silent Spirit (2009)
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...