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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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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
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...
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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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Wind River Reservation mystery volume 9
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
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276 p. : 24 cm.
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English
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When the body of a white man is recovered from a shallow grave in one of the most troubled corners of the Wind River Reservation, Father John O'Malley knows that if the murderer isn't caught quickly, this tragedy will only be the beginning. The victim's widow is already out for revenge. In the meantime, Father John's old friend Vicky Holden has just been hired as in-house counsel at the newly-opened Great Plains Casino. But trouble is brewing, as...
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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...
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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...
10) The story teller
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Wind River Reservation mystery volume 4
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
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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.
11) 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.
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Books in Motion
Pub. Date
[2001]
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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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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....
15) 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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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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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
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7 sound discs (8 hours, 30 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves disagreeing over a murder case. But when the killer strikes again, both will have to put their differences aside before they, too, get caught in the murderer's web.
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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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