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"With her gritty mysteries steeped in authentic Native American culture, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel is "widely considered the most accomplished heir to Tony Hillerman's legacy, " (Scripps Howard News Service). In the latest Wind River novel, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley confront a ruthless killer in the wake of a miraculous event. A mysterious penitent confesses to murder, and then flees the confessional...
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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 days, a young man disappears from the Reservation without a trace. A young woman is found brutally murdered. And as Father John and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden...
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In Margaret Coel's all-new Wind River Reservation mystery, a psychopathic killer has brutally murdered three Shoshone Indians and posed their bodies on a historical battlefield. Is his intent to provoke a civil war between the reservation's Shoshone and Arapaho inhabitants, or is his target actually Father John O'Malley?
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When the body of Kiki Wallowingbull, a troubled young Arapaho, is found on the frozen banks of the Little Wind River on the sparse, open plains of the Wind River Reservation, the murder looks like the results of a drug deal turned deadly. Except for the fact that Kiki had recently spent time in Hollywood trying to uncover the truth of what happened in 1923, when his great-grandfather had gone to Hollywood with other Arapahos and Shoshones to star...
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When a priceless Arapaho artifact, a petroglyph known as "The Drowning Man," is stolen by thieves who offer to ransom it back to the tribe, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley join forces to find the culprits and recover the petroglyphs, only to discover that the crime may be linked to an unsolved seven-year-old case involving stolen artifacts and murder.
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Father John O'Malley makes it his personal business to tend to the souls of the Wind River Reservation. With the disappearance of a young man, and his old friend Vicky Holden accused of murder - his hunch is that both events are somehow connected to the sect leader known as Orlando. Resurrecting the old Shadow Dance religion, Orlando and his followers will let nothing delay the coming of their New World. To get the proof they need, Father John and...
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The Arapaho Indians' sacred tribal customs are abruptly halted when a beloved elder is found murdered in his tepee--and the evidence points to his own nephew's guilt. "Insightful commentary about Arapaho culture . . . likable, well-drawn characters and a lively pace".--Publishers Weekly.
12) The spirit woman
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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 behind the legend.Vicky and Father John O?Malley soon discover that her missing friend is linked to another female historian who also vanished on the reservation?while...