Winter's Child (A Wind River Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (566 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425280322 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Margaret Coel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of the acclaimed Wind River Mysteries featuring Father John O’Malley and Vicky Holden (The Man Who Fell from the Sky, Night of the White Buffalo, Killing Custer), as well as the Catherine McLeod Mysteries (The Perfect Suspect
Superb Smokey Margaret Coel is a superb writer, as good as the Hillermans. Her books featuring attorney Vickie Holden and Catholic priest Father John constitute one of the best mystery series around. Winter's Child is one of the very best of the series. Set on the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming, these novels take you into Reservation life and immerse you in Reservation life and the way of the Arapaho, the people. Coel is adept at describing the many way. Patto said Margaret Coel has a flair for mixing crime and history. The plot unfolds with a murder. Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden is invited by another lawyer, Cliff Hopkins, to consult on a complex adoption case: an Arapaho couple wish to adopt a little white girl who was abandoned on their doorstep as an infant. Soon after Vicky agrees to help with the case, she witnesses Cliff being run down by a truck. She's sure it's deliberate.Vicky, who has a penchant for running towards danger instead of away from it, immedia. Susan Wiedeman said Winter's child another win for Coel. Margaret Coel writes another riveting story on the rez. One wonders what the future will hold for Vicky Holden and Father John. Enjoyed it like I have enjoyed her other books.
But now that she’s old enough to start school, her foster parents fear social services will take her—a white child—away from them. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. Enlisting Father John to help investigate who would kill to stop the child’s adoption, Vicky unravels a connection between the five-year-old girl and a missing alcoholic Arapaho wanted for robbery—only to uncover one of the darkest secrets in Wind River’s history…. Determined to adopt Mar
Praise for Margaret Coel “Coel is a master.”—Tony Hillerman “A vivid voice for the West.”—The Dallas Morning News “Coel’s work has a maturity that comes from years of honing the writing craft…Her characters are not clichés, but real people who are imbued with the richness of their Indian heritage.”—The Denver Post “As always, Coel is excellent in painting a realistic, non-sentimental portrait of the Arapahos.”—Daily Camera “A tautly written, compelling mystery, grounded in and sympathetic to the Arapaho culture.”—The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel