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Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves immersed in the dark underbelly of the illegal market for Indian relics. The Arapahos call it "The Drowning Man"-an ancient petroglyph depicting the haunting image of a human figure struggling under water. A priceless artifact to the tribe, the sacred object is worth a quarter of a million dollars to the thieves who took it. After receiving the ransom demand, Father John is determined...
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While investigating a supposed suicide of a young Arapaho on the Wind River Reservation and a hit-and-run accident in Denver, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that both of the deaths may have been murders and set out to expose the dark secrets over which someone is willing to kill.
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Wind River Reservation mystery volume 4
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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When Vicky Holden agreed to help the Arapahos Indians reclaim some of their artifacts that had been held at a museum, she thought she was taking on an easy case, but when one of the artifacts turns up missing, and a student winds up dead, she knows she is in over her head.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
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vi, 291 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Father John O'Malley vows to help one of his parishioners, Vicky Holden, clear her name after she is accused of killing her husband, but as he begins his own investigation into the case, he begins to doubt the young woman's innocence.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
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291 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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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. Rancher and Indian artifact 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...
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A psychopathic killer has brutally murdered three Shoshone Indians and posed their bodies on a historical battlefield. Is his intent to provoke a civil war between the reservation's Shoshone and Arapaho inhabitants, or is his target actually Father John O'Malley?
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
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viii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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In 1923, Arapahos from the Wind River Reservation were recruited to appear as extras in the silent film The Covered Wagon. But Charlie Wallowingbull never returned home, leaving people to believe he abandoned his wife and unborn son. Kiki Wallowingbull, Charlie's great-grandson, went to Hollywood determined to uncover the truth behind his great-grandfather's disappearance. But Kiki has been murdered -- his frozen body discovered by Father John, and...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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290 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A mysterious penitent confesses to murder, and then flees the confessional before Father John can identify him. Two months later, Vicky discovers rancher Dennis Carey shot dead in his truck along Blue Sky Highway. With the tragic news comes the exposure of an astonishing secret: the most sacred creature in Native American mythology, a white buffalo calf, was recently born on Carey’s ranch. Making national headlines, the miraculous animal draws a...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
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293 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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In 1973, Liz Plenty Horses was accused of betraying the militant American Indian Movement, known as AIM, to the FBI after the death of one of their members. She went into hiding with her baby daughter, never to be seen again. Now, a skeleton with a bullet hole in the back of the skull has been discovered at the bottom of a ravine on the Wind River Reservation. The body was that of a woman who was murdered sometime in 1973. With the police reluctant...
12) The lost bird
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
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294 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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The murder of an elderly priest who had recently returned to the St. Francis Mission on the Arapaho reservation in Wyoming where he had served in 1964, spurs an investigation that leads to the discovery of a shocking crime committed against the Arapaho thirty-five years earlier.
13) The spider's web
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
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291 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves on opposite sides of an investigation. When Arapaho Ned Windsong is shot to death, his fiancée Marcy is the only witness. Even though she identifies two Arapaho troublemakers, Ned's family clings to the belief that Marcy herself was responsible. Convinced of Marcy's innocence, Vicki agrees to represent the outsider -- and finds herself at odds with her own people. She also finds herself at odds...
14) The ghost walker
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
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243 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Father John O'Malley discovers a body dumped in a frozen ditch near his small church on the Arapaho reservation in Wyoming. His own truck disabled, Father John gets a ride from an edgy, evasive stranger. When police arrive at the snow-covered roadside, the body has vanished. The Arapahos say the ghost is walking around somewhere, causing trouble until the body is properly buried and the spirit can rest. Sure enough, Marcus Deppert, a troubled young...
16) Winter's child
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
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294 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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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...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
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291 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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When Robert Walking Bear’s body is found in the Wind River mountains, his death appears to be accidental — except for the fact that he had been hunting for Butch Cassidy’s buried loot with a map he had gotten from his grandfather, a map believed to have been drawn by the leader of the Hole in the Wall gang himself. It isn’t long before rumors circulate that Robert was murdered by his own cousins to get the map and find the treasure themselves....
18) Wife of moon
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
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274 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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A century ago, an Arapaho woman was killed while a photographer staged a Native American raid at the reservation. Three Indians were convicted of the crime and put to death. In the present day, an exhibition of the photographer's work is being held on the Arapaho reservation. When the museum curator vanishes, and another Arapaho woman is killed, Father John O'Malley and Arapho attorney Vickey Holden both believe that there must be a connection.
19) Killing Custer
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
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309 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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The whole town of Lander has turned out for the big parade celebrating the start of the new rodeo season. The main spectacle this year is the appearance of Colonel Edward Garrett — a spot-on impersonator of General George Armstrong Custer — and a troop of men acting as the ill-fated Seventh Cavalry. The problem is they are being followed by a group of Arapaho warriors from the Wind River Reservation, who proceed to encircle Garrett and his men...
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Books in Motion
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8.2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the sixth installment of Margaret Coel's O'Malley mysteries, Father John O'Malley, a full-time spiritual councilor and part-time sleuth, unearths a skeleton near the Little Wind River. Intrigued by his mysterious finding, O'Malley once again teams up with attorney Vicky Holden to identify the remains. Subsequently, the duo finds themselves attempting to uncover the true story of Sacajawea, the woman who guided Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Ocean....
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