John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries

A missing body, a merciless murder, and an endangered young woman, draw Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden together in a quest to stop a killer on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation.

Father John O'Malley and attorney Vicky Holden investigate the murder of an Arapaho student interested in a priceless Arapaho ledger, a ledger recently missing from a museum.

While doing research on the life of Sacajawea on the reservation, a college professor and longtime friend of Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden disappears into thin air. When Father John O'Malley, Vicky's friend and confidante, uncovers an old corpse that turns out to be that of another Sacajawea historian who disappeared twenty years earlier, the pair realizes that there's a long-hidden secret on the reservation that someone is willing to kill for.

Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and her friend Father John O'Malley investigate the mysterious death of Ben Holden while dealing with James "Orlando" Sherwood and his followers, who are intent on resurrecting the old Shadow Dance religion. "James Sherwood claims to have been to the shadow world and back. He claims to know the future. He also claims to have no connection to the disappearance of Dean Little Horse or the murder of Ben Holden ... Father...

In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to capture it on film. But it became all too real when the daughter of the tribe's chief was found murdered, and her killer was never identified. Now, Curtis's photographs are on display at the museum of St....

The Red Cliff canyon has been home to these sacred petroglyphs, and their accompanying sacred spirits, for a few thousand years. Seven years ago, however, one was pried out of the canyon and stolen.

Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden investigate the murder of an Arapaho Indian from the Wind River Reservation, who was in Hollywood trying to uncover the mystery of his great-grandfather's disappearance while filming a 1923 Western.

Vicki and Father John investigate the murder of an Indian artifact collector after the valuable regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes missing.

"With her gritty mysteries steeped in authentic Native American culture, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel is "widely considered the most accomplished heir to Tony Hillerman's legacy," (Scripps Howard News Service). In the latest Wind River novel, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley confront a ruthless killer in the wake of a miraculous event. A mysterious penitent confesses to murder, and then flees the confessional...

"Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that a centuries-old mystery is tied to a modern-day crime on the Wind River Reservation ... 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...