Margaret Coel
1) Blood memory
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Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
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James "Orlando" Sherwood has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion, having his followers dance for days at a time for the promise of an Indian paradise. And when lawyer Vicky Holden's estranged husband is found murdered, Father John O'Malley believes that Orlando has more to do with it than he lets on. But to get the proof, Father John and Vicky Holden will have to learn to dance to his music.
3) Wife of moon
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In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to capture it on film. But it became all too real when the daughter of the tribe's chief was found murdered, and her killer was never identified. Now, Curtis's photographs are on display at the museum of St....
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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 discovered at the bottom of a ravine on the Wind River Reservation. The body was that of a woman who was murdered sometime in 1973. With the police reluctant...
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Margaret Coel's spellbinding Wind River mysteries have long celebrated the spirit of the American West. When Kiki Wallowingbull is found dead on the reservation, all signs point to a drug deal gone wrong. Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden and Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley begin an investigation into the murder, but soon find themselves spiraling toward a deadly world of drugs and deceit.
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When Arapaho Ned Windsong is shot to death, his fiancé Marcy is the only witness. And when the men Marcy has accused of murdering her fiancé are found dead in an abandoned barn, Vicky and Father John realize they are caught in a web of lies and deceit woven by a master.
10) The drowning man
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The Red Cliff canyon has been home to these sacred petroglyphs, and their accompanying sacred spirits, for a few thousand years. Seven years ago, however, one was pried out of the canyon and stolen.
11) Eye of the wolf
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In this latest Wind River Reservation mystery, a psychopathic killer has brutally murdered three Shoshones and posed their bodies on a historic battlefield, intent on provoking a civil war between the reservation's Arapaho and Shoshone, or is he gunning after Father O'Malley?
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While investigating a supposed suicide of a young Arapaho on the Wind River Reservation and a hit-and-run accident in Denver, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that both of the deaths may have been murders and set out to expose the dark secrets over which someone is willing to kill.
14) The ghost walker
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A missing body, a merciless murder, and an endangered young woman, draw Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden together in a quest to stop a killer on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation.
"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...
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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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When Robert Walking Bear's body is found in the Wind River mountains, his death appears to be accidental--except for the fact that he had been hunting for Butch Cassidy's buried loot with a map he had gotten from his grandfather, a map believed to have been drawn by the leader of the Hole in the Wall gang himself. It isn't long before rumors circulate that Robert was murdered by his own cousins to get the map and find the treasure themselves. Despite...
18) Killing Custer
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309 pages ; 24 cm.
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When Colin Morningside, a descendant of Crazy Horse, is accused of murdering a General Armstrong Custer impersonator, Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden must find the truth, which leads them into a deadly conspiracy that neither of them could have foreseen.
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417 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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After over 120 years, the regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show were to be returned to his people. But the cartons that arrived at the Arapaho museum were empty. Rancher and Indian artifact collector Trevor Pratt, who had them shipped from Germany, believes thieves stole them en route. But Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley suspect Trevor knows more about the theft than he's telling.