The Thunder Keeper

by Margaret Coel Narrated by Stephanie Brush

Overview

Because she believes that her feelings for Father John O'Malley, a Jesuit priest, are inappropriate, Vickie Holden leaves her home on the Wind River Reservation and takes a job in Denver. She receives a call from Vince Lewis, V. P. for Balder Industries, who has information to give her regarding the reservation. Vince is killed by a hit and run driver before he can give Vickie the information. Back on the reservation, Father John is aware of another man who he believes is murdered. What is it about the Wind River Reservation that killers are trying to keep secret?

Editorial Reviews

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Convinced that a young Arapaho's suicide and a fatal hit-and-run accident are really murders, attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley put their heads together to find out what's on the reservation that someone is willing to kill for...

Publishers Weekly

In her seventh mystery set among the Arapahos of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation featuring her twin sleuths, Father John O'Malley (on the rez) and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden (temporarily transplanted to Denver), Coel gets the atmosphere just right. Every physical detail of the "vision quest" that a desperate young man named Duncan Grover undertakes on a cliff above Bear Lake seems perfect, while the challenges of Vicky's new life as a high-profile attorney are equally sharp. But the actual story here is the problem: it seems to be made up of recycled plot elements from several other recent Western mysteries. Grover's murder, made to look like a suicide, and only uncovered when Father John hears the details in a confession; the heavy-breathing corporate villains seeking to exploit the Native Americans and plunder their riches (not oil or gold this time, but diamonds); the insensitive white cops who just don't get it surely we've covered this ground before. Too bad, because when Coel writes about Father John's tricky relationship with Vicky (echoed in a lawsuit filed by a frustrated woman against his new assistant), or Vicky's edgy moments with the husband and children she left behind, she is on original and interesting ground. The author's previous books have been justly praised by the likes of Tony Hillerman, but an overly familiar plot this time out could lead to bad word-of-mouth and a falling off in sales. (Sept. 4) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169639711
Publisher:	Books in Motion
Publication date:	08/15/2001
Series:	Father O'Malley , #7
Edition description:	Unabridged

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