Buffalo Bill's Dead Now

Zusatztext “[Coel is] a master.”—Tony Hillerman Praise for Buffalo Bill's Dead Now “Margaret Coel seems poised to take on [Tony Hillerman’s] mantle to honor the Arapaho and the West.”— The Denver Post “An interesting combination of historical information on Buffalo Bill’s wildly popular show and modern-day mystery.”— Kirkus Reviews “Compelling…[A] novel of murder! love! greed! redemption! and respect for one’s heritage—and a tribute to Coel’s legacy as a talented mystery writer and a skillful storyteller.”—Bookreporter.com Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In the latest Wind River novel from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley are witnesses to history—and murder... After more than 120 years, the regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show were supposed to be returned to his people. But the cartons containing the relics were empty when they arrived at the Arapaho Museum. Collector Trevor Pratt had them shipped from Germany and believes thieves must have stolen them en route. Vicki and Father John suspect Trevor knows more about the theft than he's telling—a suspicion that's confirmed when they find him murdered in his home. To find the killer, they must first uncover the truth about a blood feud between two Arapaho families—and the original theft of Black Heart's possessions dating back more than a century... 1 The pickup rumbling past the administration building sent a tremor through the old walls. Father John O’Malley set his pen down and pushed the notes he’d been making into a neat stack. Topics for next month’s sermons, ideas for the men’s club he’d started this fall, agenda for the social committee meeting this week. Five parishioners in the hospital, six new mothers who needed help with diapers, blankets, and baby food, a dozen elders who might run short of food this winter. Plus notes he’d written on the budget, never his strong point. What was it the provincial said? He ran St. Francis Mission on a hope and a prayer? Some truth in it. His business plan was to make lists of what the mission needed and pray for miracles. The donations always arrived, checks for five, ten, even a hundred dollars from people he had never heard of. Help the Arapahos on the reservation the scribbled notes said. He hurried outside and down the concrete steps. The black pickup slowed in front of the Arapaho museum at the far curve of Circle Drive. He broke into a jog along the drive, past the turn off to Eagle Hall and the guest house, past the white stucco church decorated in the blue, red, and yellow geometric symbols of the Arapaho people. It was the third Tuesday in September, the Moon of the Drying Grass, as Arapahos kept time, and the sun was hot, the sky crystal blue. Gravel crunched under his boots and wild grasses in the center of the drive swayed in the wind. He liked autumn best, the trees and brush, the earth itself, engulfed in flames of red, orange, and gold. St. Francis Mission on the Wind River Reservation had been home for almost ten years. Still a surprise, when he thought about it. A Boston Irishman, a Jesuit priest on the fast track to an academic career teaching American history at Boston College or Marquette University, at home in the middle of Wyoming on an Indian reservation with a Plains Indian tribe he had only read about in the footnotes of history texts. One day he would be assigned somewhere else, but ...

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Coel
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2013
• EAN: 9780425252253
• ISBN: 978-0-425-25225-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 109 mm x 174 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Wind River Mysteries (Paperbac; A Wind River Mystery; A Wind River Mystery; Wind River Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense