Bill Plott's Reviews > Killing Raven

No. 10 in Coel's outstanding Wind River Reservation mystery series. This may be one of the best in the lot so far. Father John O'Malley is called to the scene when a white man's body is found buried in a shallow grave on the reservation. Arapaho Attorney Vicky Holden is persuaded to review contracts for the new Great Plains Casino. Is it real job or is it window dressing to have an Arapaho attorney on the payroll? It becomes apparent that it is the latter when Vicky discovers unusual hiring practices and questionable contracts. Meanwhile, an activist named Captain Jack Monroe has organized a small group of Indians to protest the casino and hassle patrons. The tenuous friendship between O'Malley and Vicky is again a factor, clouded at the end by Vicky's likely new relationship with attorney Adam Lone Eagle. "Don't worry," Vicky tells Father John. "I've explained how it's always been with us. We're like two horses taking different roads back to the corral, and once in a while, the roads cross."