Wind River Reservation Mystery The Eagle Catcher, Book 1, (Paperback)

from buffalogr

In Margaret Coel's The Eagle Catcher, the first installment in the Wind River Reservation serial mystery series, if you're a fan of Tony and Anne Hillerman's novels, you would enjoy this series. Somewhat of a slow start--this first book of a series introduced the characters well and set the backg...

from tututhefirst

The first of a long series of stories about a Jesuit priest serving at a mission on an Arapaho reservation - the fictional Wind River Reservation. In this introductory story, Fr. John is trying to help a young Indian unjustly accused of murdering his uncle (a good friend of Fr. John's). He is abl...

from AuntieClio

As mysteries go, this is okay. I'm sure I started reading Coel because I adore Hillerman. But Hillerman she's not, Arapaho culture notwithstanding, this is a pretty standard murder mystery. No big surprise to find out why the murderer did what they did.

from Zumbanista

Somewhat of a slow start, this first book of a long series introduced the characters well and set the background of the Arapaho community. The storyline line veered into being trite and sometimes stereotypical. I mostly enjoyed the writing, but occasionally it was a bit over descriptive and there...

from quondame

Modern Native American setting mystery lite. A reformed alcoholic preist and a divorced Native American lawyer work to clear a promising young NA man of murdering his uncle. Characters are a little better than cut-outs, but not compelling, the pace is good and the writing painless.