Spanish Peaks Library District

Father O'Malley investigates when a body goes missing and the Arapaho sense a ghost nearby.

When Vicky Holden agreed to help the Arapahos Indians reclaim some of their artifacts that had been held at a museum, she thought she was taking on an easy case, but when one of the artifacts turns up missing, and a student winds up dead, she knows she is in over her head.

The search for a missing history professor, who vanished while visiting the Wind River Reservation, draws Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley into a twenty-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of another historian and into a complex puzzle from the past involving a young Shoshone woman named Sacajawea.

James "Orlando" Sherwood has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion having his followers dance for days at a time for the promise of an Indian paradise. For Orlando and his followers, nothing must delay the coming of the New World--not even the investigation of Ben Holden's death. It has been four months since lawyer Vicky Holden left her high-powered job in a legal firm to return to her home on the Wind River Reservation. She agreed to meet her...

"In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to capture it on film. But it became all too real when the daughter of the tribe's chief was found murdered - and her killer was never identified." "Now, Curtis's photographs are on display at the museum of...

When a priceless Arapaho artifact, a petroglyph known as "The Drowning Man," is stolen, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley join forces to find the culprits, only to discover that the crime may be linked to an unsolved seven-year-old case involving stolen artifacts and murder.