"How is an innocent child connected to murder?"
Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted January 5, 2017
Mystery
A young Indian couple Myra and Eldon, just lost their
baby girl and a week later someone leaves a newborn baby
girl on their front steps. Myra feels that someone will
come back for this baby but five years later they still
have Mary Anne. Clint Hawkins takes on this case as the parents want to
enroll her in school. They are afraid that since they
are Indians and the baby is white, someone is going to
take her away from them. Clint assures them that this
will not happen but he asks Vicky to help
him with this case to make sure. Vicky agrees to meet Cliff and
discuss this case, but before they can meet a car from out
of nowhere speeds past her and hits Cliff,
killing him. Vicky is sure this is murder, but because it was icy, the
police feel it was an accident. Vicky decides
she is going to find out what is really going on because
several things just don't add up. In addition to Cliff's
death, Vicky
is also trying to get one of her clients, Vince, to turn
himself in. Vicky also talks to Father John about both of
these cases since she feels that in some way both are
connected and she needs to figure out what Cliff was hiding
about them.
Unfortunately, Vicky can't look at Cliff's notes because
he never kept
any, he kept everything in his head. What is to become of this WINTER CHILD? Only time will
tell. Margaret Coel writes a very sad story, at least in my
view, how could anyone just dump their child? Here is a
couple who wanted to keep this baby, but because they are
Indian they feel social services will take her away.
Coel goes into more detail about what led up to
this which is really an important element in WINTER'S CHILD.
It's not like you have to read
any of the other books in the Wind
River mystery series because
they all seem to stand alone. You can figure out some of
the characters because Coel makes sure that you are not
confused. This is important when you want to pick up book 20
in a series to start. I also enjoyed Coel's description of the town and people, a
small town populated with people who care about
each other, and yet everyone gossips. The information about
life on the reservation and Indians was new to me but was
not overpowering. WINTER'S CHILD is a thrilling mystery to
add to your reading list.
SUMMARY
Margaret Coel’s New York Times bestselling series
continues as Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John
O’Malley discover that a centuries-old mystery is tied to a
modern-day crime on the Wind River Reservation… In the midst of a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield
found an abandoned baby on their doorstep and brought her
inside. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the
little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. 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. Determined to adopt Mary Anne, the Little Shields hire
lawyer Clint Hopkins, who wants Vicky as cocounsel on the
case. But before their meeting can take place, a black truck
deliberately runs Hopkins down in the street. 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…
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