Eye of the Wolf (Wind River Reservation Series #11)

by Margaret Coel

Overview

This is for the Indian priest.

The cryptic message was clearly meant for Father O’Malley. The unemotional voice on the answering machine, speaking of revenge against old enemies, wanted O’Malley to visit the site of the Bates Battle. In 1874, Shoshone warriors led Captain Alfred Bates’s cavalry to Arapaho tribal grounds, and nearly everyone living there was massacred. As a nation, the Arapaho were finished, but their people survived. Now, someone has left three dead Shoshones on the old battlefield, positioned to mimic the bodies of those Arapaho killed in the historic slaughter.

Vicky Holden’s latest client, Frankie Montana, has become the number one suspect in their deaths. Despite his less than sterling background, Vicky doesn’t believe he’s capable of murder. Someone is trying to stir up a war between the Arapaho and Shoshone people—and tear open the painful wounds of the past once more…

 

 

 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101205341
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/06/2005
Series:	Wind River Reservation Series , #11
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	96,771
File size:	426 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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, as well as the Catherine McLeod Mysteries and several works of nonfiction. Originally a historian by trade, she is considered an expert on the Arapaho Indians. A native of Colorado, she resides in Boulder.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Bestseller Coel’s descriptive artistry surely makes her the James Lee Burke of Native American mystery writers…magnificently crafted.”—Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

Bestseller Coel's descriptive artistry, as shown in her 11th whodunit (after 2004's Wife of Moon), surely makes her the James Lee Burke of Native American mystery writers. Readers will be immediately entrenched in the solid reality of the Wind River Reservation and Father John O'Malley's alarm on receiving a cryptic voice-mail message that leads him to a century-old battlefield and three newly slain Shoshones. Could these be revenge killings for the bloody battle that took place between the now co-existing Arapahos and Shoshones? When a client of Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden, Frankie Montana, is accused of the murders, Vicky's law partner and lover, Adam Lone Eagle, urges her to pass Montana to the attractive new lawyer in town. Past experience sets off her warning bells, and Vicky begins to wonder about Adam's interest in the beautiful blond newcomer. The wary familiarity between Vicky and Father John continues even as the two are drawn into an expanding circle of death. Delving into the depths of this magnificently crafted volume is like digging into your favorite layer cake-thoroughly delicious. Agent, Rich Henshaw. (Sept.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Ancient quarrels erupt anew between the Arapaho and Shoshone tribes on the Wind River Reservation. The massacre at Bates Battlefield, when Shoshone warriors helped the U.S. Cavalry ambush an Arapaho village, was a turning point in Old Time, marking the end of the Arapahos as a nation. But poor planning and indifference at the Department of Indian Affairs placed the remaining Arapahos in the southeast corner of Wind River, only miles from their Shoshone rivals. Their fragile coexistence is rocked when Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, gets a strange call about dead bodies at Bates and goes there to find three murdered Shoshones, posed as if killed in battle. O'Malley's worries grow as he meets Edie Bradbury, a student at Central Wyoming College, whose Shoshone boyfriend, Trent Hunter, has disappeared. Detective Andy Burton blames the killings on chronic troublemaker Frankie Montana, who was in a bar fight with Hunter and the Crispin brothers just a few weeks before. But Frankie's lawyer, Vicky Holden, disagrees. Despite her lover Adam Lone Eagle's entreaties to stop defending losers like Frankie and turn her attention to high-profile cases instead, she seeks help from O'Malley and history professor Charles Lambert to prove her client's innocence before tribal war breaks out. Coel's latest Wind River chronicle (Killing Raven, 2003, etc.) offers a skillful blend of history and mystery, with characters whose motives are seldom what they seem.

Kirkus Reviews

Bestseller Coel’s descriptive artistry surely makes her the James Lee Burke of Native American mystery writers…magnificently crafted.”—Publishers Weekly

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