Wind River #18
Berkley Prime Crime
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
300 pages ISBN: 0425264661 EAN: 9780425264669 Kindle: B00IOE3NG2 Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
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 before
Father John can identify him. Two months later, Vicky
discovers rancher Dennis Carey shot dead in his truck along
Blue Sky Highway. With the tragic news comes the exposure of
an astonishing secret: the most sacred creature in Native
American mythology, a white buffalo calf, was recently born
on Carey’s ranch.
Making national headlines,
the miraculous animal draws a flood of pilgrims to the
reservation, frustrating an already difficult investigation.
As visitors throw the reservation into turmoil, Vicky and
Father John try to unravel the strange events surrounding
both Carey’s murder and the recent disappearances of three
cowboys from his ranch.
It could be
coincidence, given the nomadic life of the cowboy trade, but
when one of them fails to appear in court to testify on an
assault charge, Vicky wonders if Arnie Walkfast and his
Arapaho buddies are guilty of more than just assault. And at
the back of Father John’s mind is the voice from the man in
the confessional: I killed a man…