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    The Story Teller: O'Malley Mystery Series Book-4
    The Story Teller: O'Malley Mystery Series Book-4
    The Story Teller: O'Malley Mystery Series Book-4
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    The Story Teller: O'Malley Mystery Series Book-4

    Written by Margaret Coel

    Narrated by Stephanie Brush

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    About this audiobook

    A museum is required by law to return a rare one-of-a-kind pictorial book - the only eye-witness account of Arapaho history on the plains. The book is worth millions to dealers who razor out pages and sell them one by one. But when the museum says they never had the book, Vicky Holden suspects foul play. Then she learns that an Arapaho student mysteriously died while researching the ledger. Vicky and Father John must begin a deadly search for the sacred treasure and the killer. An irreplaceable piece of Arapaho history could be lost forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateMay 15, 2005
    ISBN9781596071865
    The Story Teller: O'Malley Mystery Series Book-4

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    • 5/5
      These are wonderful books. I love the history and language. I have read so many historical books about Sand Creek and Black Kettle. Thank you for this gift.
    • 4/5
      I like this series with Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden. She is asked to look into recovering tribal artifacts from a Denver museum. Centered around a missing Arapaho ledger book, and a history student, this mystery illuminates search for power, money interests and culture. The plot is fascinating and well-mapped. The characters are well developed and believable. Most of the book is set in Colorado...off the Wind River reservation. I'll willingly go to book #5 in the series.
    • 4/5
      Artifacts are being returned by museums to tribes via a government act, but an inventory missing the ledger is what drew attorney Vicky Holden to Denver where the murder occurred. Father John O'Malley is on the campus of Regis University in Denver to try to secure funding for a museum. Meanwhile a graduate student from the Wind River Reservation is murdered and his death seems to be linked to his thesis.Father John and Vicky assist investigators in finding the perpetrators, but the way they reach their conclusions holds the reader's interest. I listened to the audio book read by Stephanie Brush who does a good job with this series.
    • 4/5
      A rare and missing Arapahoe artifact search unleashes a series of violent deaths. Native American History provides an interesting context for Father O'Malley and Vickie search for the killers. Is there really a ledger book about Sandy C?reek
    • 3/5
      Story based on the disappearance of a grad student, who appears to have found a missing and rare ledgend book. I enjoyed the fact that this story focused on museum work.
    • 4/5
      Another great story in the Wind River mystery series. The development of Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley continues to grow with each book. Coel has done a wonderful job in developing this series.
    • 4/5
      Father John and Vicky find themselves once again working on a murder. This time a young graduate student who has promised to be curator at the Arapaho Museum is killed while finishing up his master's thesis. Is there something in the thesis that got him killed? Or was it a drug related killing? Vicky and Father John both dismiss the drug angle, they know Todd and that isn't his style.

      At first I thought this was going to be another "big issue" book, i.e., something that involves several federal agencies as well as the local police. There were some aspects of this but it wasn't the main part of the story, it stayed as a mostly local story, which I like much better.

      I like the blend of Arapaho traditions blending with modern life and with the Catholic traditions. It is an unusual blend and Coel carries it off time after time.

      More books to read in this series so I'll be back on the Wind River Reservation, soon.
    • 3/5
      A sturdy mystery, with more interesting themes underpinning the character motivations.Centered around a missing Arapaho ledger book, and a history student, this mystery gets into the gray nexus of cultural ownership and the monetary value tied to both artifacts themselves, and what they reveal about past events. This nexus includes political ramifications with regards to land grants, professional ramifications for museums and historians, and material ramifications in that all of the above are worth a great deal of money. The Sand Creek massacre hovers over this story like a heavy silence.I could really do without the constant reminder that heroine Vicky and hero Father John care about each other *very much*. I get it, can we focus on the dead people and complex web of history's influence on the present now?