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Ancient Ones - Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3
Author: Kirk Mitchell

Kirk Mitchell won acclaim with his first two suspense novels featuring Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed. Now the author of Cry Dance and Spirit Sickness pairs Parker and Turnipseed once more, to investigate a case where the discovery of a m... more »ysterious skeleton on an Oregon Indian reservation will pit the demands of modern forensics against traditional tribal laws.

Though there are signs of foul play, Emmett Quanah Parker and Anna Turnipseed aren't looking for a killer -- the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are 14,000 years old. Parker and Turnipseed are sent to central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of John Day Man, as he is dubbed, for the bones have quickly provoked a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton is not Native American but distinctly Caucasian, shattering long-held tenets concerning who the first inhabitants of this continent were.

Emmett, with his Comanche and white ancestry, and Anna, a reservation-born Modoc with Asian blood, share a sensitivity to both parties' concerns -- and a forbidden attraction that's causing them professional and personal problems. They've broken the unwritten law that partners should never get emotionally involved. Having crossed that line, Emmett and Anna are too distracted by each other to see the escalating suspicion and fear around them when a young tribal anthropologist is swallowed by the misty night and within hours of her disappearance the fossil hunter who discovered the skeleton is found disemboweled.

The Warm Springs Indians insist that the unburied bones of the Ancient One have been turned into a skep, a murderous spirit that haunts the darkness. As winter closes in on the steppes of the Columbia Plateau, accusations of ritualized murder fly between the Indian and white communities -- and the fight turns deadly when a second skeleton is unearthed.

In the midst of the turmoil, Emmett and Anna are paralyzed by their own demons. This estrangement could prove deadly if they stop watching each other's back long enough for a killer to target them too. And at the center of it all are the Ancient Ones, exacting a terrible price as the dark path to resolution runs a gauntlet through the boneyards of prehistory.

ISBN-13: 9780553109146
ISBN-10: 0553109146
Publication Date: 5/1/2001
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Susan J. B. reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 3/6/2006 + 192 more book reviews

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Excellent American Indian mystery with a Comanche BLM Agent and A Modoc FBI agent. Brings a controversy in the news today alive with insights from all sides. Wonderful read.

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Pat L. (Askpat) - reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 1/19/2007 + 108 more book reviews

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Featuring a Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Speical Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops searching for ustice between their heritage and the law. Story is set in Pacific Northwest Indian Country.

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Paige C. reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 9/4/2006 + 24 more book reviews

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Bureau of Indian Affairs Emmet Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed are two Native AMerican cops searching for justice between their heritage and the law. In this book, the issue are the remains dug out of the riverbank by illegal fossil hunters--human remains!

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Ann C. (inchargemom) reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 11/8/2006 + 134 more book reviews

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A police thriller, in the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh, but from a Native American viewpoint.

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Phyllis O. reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 1/14/2007 + 13 more book reviews

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Interesting tale about theft of indian artifacts. The romance part was okay.

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Donna V. (galnsearch) reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 11/15/2008 + 143 more book reviews

Riveting, I could not put this one down!
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Darrell D. reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 2/1/2007 + 17 more book reviews

Excellent

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Wade R. reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 8/28/2005 + 91 more book reviews

a fair mystery, better for those who like native american themes.

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Roger B. (IRONWOLF1) reviewed Ancient Ones (Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed, Bk 3) on 3/10/2005 + 38 more book reviews

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