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Zusatztext “Bestseller Coel’s descriptive artistry surely makes her the James Lee Burke of Native American mystery writers…magnificently crafted.”— Publishers Weekly 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 this latest Wind River Reservation mystery! a psychopathic killer has brutally murdered three Shoshones and posed their bodies on a historic battlefield! intent on provoking a civil war between the reservation's Arapaho and Shoshone! or is he gunning after Father O'Malley? Zusammenfassung 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…
