Winter's child
Margaret Coel.
- Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
- New York Berkley Prime Crime 2017
- 292 pages ; 17 cm.
- A Wind River Mystery Book 20 . - A Wind River mystery ; 20 .
"Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that a centuries-old mystery is tied to a modern-day crime on the Wind River Reservation ... In the midst of a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield found an abandoned baby on their doorstep and brought her inside. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. But now that she's old enough to start school, her foster parents fear social services will take her--a white child--away from them. Determined to adopt Mary Anne, the Little Shields hire lawyer Clint Hopkins, who wants Vicky as cocounsel on the case. But before their meeting can take place, a black truck deliberately runs Hopkins down in the street. Enlisting Father John to help investigate who would kill to stop the child's adoption, Vicky unravels a connection between the five-year-old girl and a missing alcoholic Arapaho wanted for robbery--only to uncover one of the darkest secrets in Wind River's history."--
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Holden, Vicky (Fictitious character)--Fiction. O'Malley, John (Fictitious character)--Fiction. Women lawyers--Fiction. Arapaho Indians--Fiction.
Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.) Wyoming--Wind River Indian Reservation.