The Silent Spirit
Margaret Coel

Margaret Coel has a gift for crafting "compelling characters... to entertain her loyal fans" (The Denver Post) in each and every one of her Wind River Reservation mysteries. Now, in The Silent Spirit she relies upon sparse and dead-on prose to interweave themes of vengeance, social justice, and the powerful forces of memory in order to uncover the truth of the past and connect two homicides separated by nearly a century.

When the body of Kiki Wallowingbull, a troubled young Arapaho is found on the frozen banks of the Little Wind River on the sparse, open plains of the Wind River Reservation, the murder looks like the results of a drug deal turned deadly. Except for the fact that Kiki had recently spent time in Hollywood trying to uncover the truth of what happened in 1923, when his great-grandfather had gone to Hollywood with other Arapahos and Shoshones to star in the silent film, The Covered Wagon. Kiki's great-grandfather was the only one not to come home. Through the decades, the family has held to the belief that he was murdered in Hollywood. Now the family is convinced that Kiki was killed because of what he had learned, and that someone is still determined to keep the past buried.

When Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden are drawn into the investigation, they find themselves on a trail that leads through the dark world of drugs on the Wind River Reservation and, ultimately, the giddy no-holds-barred world of Hollywood in the 1920s, when the studios made the law and the murder of an Arapaho actor could be swept away.

(A Wind River Mystery Novel #14)
Berkley, September 2009
ISBN-10: 0425229769
ISBN-13: 9780425229767
336 pages Hardcover
$24.95

Also by Margaret Coel:
The Spider's Web, September 2011
The Perfect Suspect, September 2011
The Silent Spirit, September 2010
The Spider's Web, September 2010
Blood Memory, September 2009
The Girl with Braided Hair, September 2008
Blood Memory, September 2008
The Drowning Man, September 2007
The Girl With Braided Hair, September 2007
Eye of the Wolf, September 2006
The Drowning Man, September 2006
Wife Of Moon, September 2005
Eye Of The Wolf, September 2005
Wife of Moon, September 2004
Killing Raven, August 2004
Killing Raven, September 2003
The Shadow Dancer, August 2003
The Thunder Keeper, August 2002
The Spirit Woman, August 2001
The Lost Bird, August 2000
The Story Teller, September 1999
The Dream Stalker, September 1998
The Ghost Walker, September 1997
The Eagle Catcher, September 1996

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