"The Ghost Walker," the second book in the Arapaho Indian mystery series, is another well-crafted thriller with great characters. I have come to really care about Coel's amateur sleuths: Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden.

In "The Ghost Walker," Father John finds a corpse dumped in a roadside ditch during a Wyoming blizzard. When he returns with the police, the corpse has vanished. Father John soon learns Marcus Deppert, a reckless young Arapaho who once served prison time for drug dealing, has vanished from the reservation. Meanwhile, he finds out a development company plans to buy St. Francis Mission, where he is head pastor, and turn it into a recreation center.

Vicky reunites with her estranged daughter, Susan, who is living with three white men on a remote ranch. Susan is on drugs, and Vicky and Father John suspect the white men are running a drug ring and could be connected to Marcus's disappearance. As they investigate, they put their own lives in danger.

I highly recommend this mystery for its absorbing plot and its intriguing glimpses into the Arapaho culture, but most of all because it really puts you into the heads of the two main protagonists -- characters you can really root for.

A Father John O'Malley/Vicky Holden mystery - Margaret Coel writes an engrossing murder mystery and at the same time teaches about Arapaho history and customs. This is a thoroughly enjoyable read.

A Father John O'Malley/Vicky Holden mystery - Margaret Coel writes an engrossing murder mystery and at the same time teaches about Arapaho history and customs. This is a thoroughly enjoyable read.

From the book cover:
"Father John O'Malley comes across a corpse lying in a ditch beside the highway. When he returns with the police, it is gone. The Arapahos of the Wind River Reservation speak of ghost walkers - tormented souls caught between the earth and the spirit world, who are capable of anything.
Then, within days, a young man disappears from the reservation without a trace. A young woman is found brutally murdered. And as Father John and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden investigate these crimes, someone - or something - begins to follow them.
Together, Vicky and Father John must draw upon ancient Arapaho traditions to stop a killer, explain the inexplicable, and put a ghost to rest ..."

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The first M. Coel I have read. A very quick read. But somewhat predictable. Average.

Well written

great series - features protagonists who must battle their own demons in order to solve the mysteries

First read for me by this author. A pleasant change of pace.

Evil amond the Wind River Arapahos and a mystery solved by Father John O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden - well worth the read.

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