Felicia J. (FeliciaJ) reviewed on 8/21/2005 + 136 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 8

"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.

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