12/17/2023 0 Comments Night night buffalo book![]() Hmmm, maybe Coel also read a few Nancy Drews along the way. She liberally sprinkled “clues” throughout the story, particularly in the closing paragraphs, setting the stage for some sort of reveal in her next book, The Man Who Fell from the Sky, due out in September, 2015. The bigger mystery is what Coel has in store for O’Malley and Holden. The “who dunnit” component of the story wasn’t much of a mystery either that was pretty clear a few chapters into the story. The plot of the story was okay, but lacked the usual ethnographic depth of Coel’s works, particularly the most recent books that have explored the Arapaho’s interaction with historical figures such as Buffalo Bill Cody and General George Armstrong Custer. He finally hears one confession, that of a murder, but he is stymied in his attempt to identify either victim or perpetrator. ![]() Giving a nod to a fellow regional mystery writer, Coel opens the book with Father John reading a Craig Johnson story as he whiles away a quiet, hot summer afternoon in the confessional at the mission church (on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming), awaiting visitors. It was the familiar characters, Boston-born Father John O’Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden, however, who held my attention. Her latest, Night of the White Buffalo: Wind River Reservation Mystery, Book 18, hit the spot on a rainy weekend. This year, Margaret Coel’s stories-reminiscent of Tony Hillerman’s body of work-filled the longing for a light but interesting mystery series. Fast forward a few decades and I still find myself wanting to read a mystery or two (or five) at the start of the summer. ![]() Oh, there was an occasional Trixie Belden and Encyclopedia Brown, but Nancy got most of my attention once school was out. I’ll admit it, I was a Nancy Drew fan as a kid. And at the back of Father John’s mind is the voice from the man in the I killed a man … It could be coincidence, given a cowboy’s nomadic life, but Vicky doesn’t believe in coincidences. The miraculous animal draws a flood of pilgrims to the reservation, frustrating Vicky and Father John’s already difficult investigation as they try to unravel the strange events surrounding both Carey’s murder and the recent disappearances of three cowboys from his ranch. ![]() With the tragic news comes the exposure of an astonishing the most sacred creature in Native American mythology, a white buffalo calf, was recently born on Carey’s ranch. Two months later, Vicky discovers rancher Dennis Carey shot dead in his truck along Blue Sky Highway. New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel returns to the Wind River Reservation with Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O’Malley investigating a mystery overshadowed by a mythological miracle…Ī mysterious penitent confesses to murder, and then flees the confessional before Father John can identify him. ![]()
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