The Spider's Web
A Wind River Mystery Novel #15
Berkley Pub Group
Mystery: Cozy, Mystery
September 7, 2010
ISBN-10: 0425236609
ISBN-13: 9780425236604
Available in: Hardcover
“A vivid voice for the West” (The Dallas Morning News), Margaret Coel crafts a unique blend of history and mystery in her Wind River novels. Now, the latest in the New York Times bestselling series finds Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley on opposite sides of an investigation that threatens the peace of the reservation...
A beautiful outsider, Marcy Morrison, moves to the Wind River Reservation, bringing murder in her wake. When the Arapaho she plans to marry, Ned Windsong, is shot to death, Marcy is the only witness. Even though she identifies two Arapaho troublemakers, Ned’s family clings to the belief that Marcy herself was responsible. Convinced of Marcy’s innocence, Vicki agrees to represent her—and finds herself at odds with her own people.
She also finds herself at odds with Father John, because the mission priest has glimpsed something in the beautiful girl that shakes him to his core. Then the men Marcy has accused of murdering her fiancĂ© are found dead in an abandoned barn, and another suspect surfaces: Roseanne Birdwoman, Ned’s former girlfriend. Vicky and Father John realize they are caught in a web of lies and deceit woven by a master, a psychopathic killer determined to play out the game to the deadly end.
Margaret Coel is the New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Wind River mystery series set among the Arapahos on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and featuring Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden.
She is a native Coloradan who hails from a pioneer Colorado family. The Westthe mountains, plains, and vast spacesare in her bones, she says. She moved out of Colorado on two occasionsto attend Marquette University and to spend a couple of years in Alaska. Both times she couldn't wait to get back.
Meet Father John O'Malley, history scholar and recovering alcoholic, and Vicky Holden, who after ten years in the outside world, has returned to the Arapaho Indian reservation in Wyoming where she was born, to help her people, and solve crimes.