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The Shadow Dancer
Written by Margaret Coel
Narrated by Stephanie Brush
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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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 abusive ex-husband Ben at a local restaurant, but he soon loses his temper, makes a scene, and walks out. A mortified Vicky later learns Ben is murdered. Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and her friend, Father John O'Malley, believe that Orlando has more to do with it than he lets on. But to get the proof they need, they will have to learn to dance to his music....
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really like the books that are narrated by Stephanie brush.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The narrator mispronounces words - Shoshone, butchered Emeritus- no quality control.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Father's new associate priest seems to be collecting data for the provincial to close the mission at the upcoming meeting. Father John enlists the aid of a "grandfather" to be present at the meeting which will decide the mission's fate. Meanwhile a woman reports a missing Arapaho man who worked for a technology firm. She doesn't want to involve the police although Father John knows it is past time to report his disappearance. He goes to a ranch where an Arapaho who had a near death experience and came back claiming to be Orlando who was trying to revive the ghost dance religion. He discovers the man had been there and suspects he may be hidden on the ranch. He reports what he sees to chief Banner who begins investigating the man's disappearance. Meanwhile Vicki's ex-husband invites her to dinner where they get into a fight. He is shot shortly thereafter, making her the FBI's prime suspect. He'd mentioned two Lakota men who had stolen something. The story lines become linked and intertwined as the story unfolds. I enjoy the reservation setting. I really wish the author would drop the romantic attraction between the priest the and the lawyer. It's unnecessary, and the two could team up without that element in a more effective manner. I listened to the audiobook read by Stephanie Brush.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The plots are three: potential loss of the mission; Vicki's ex- is murdered (good riddance) and a computer geek goes missing. Oh and let's not forget the Jim Jones style false prophet. As this is book #8, I'm so over the priest-indian woman lawyer romance. Coel's books on Arapaho Wyoming are informative and interesting. The stories are becoming somewhat repetitive.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another good entry in this interesting series
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this 8th book in the Wind River series attorney Vickie Holden finds herself suspected of murdering her ex-husbands. Add to this is a missing Arapaho computer geek and a man some natives are calling a prophet who claims the Old Times are coming back. An enjoyable mystery.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Christianity (Catholicism) vs. Native ways, White man laws vs. Indian Laws, celibate white priest vs. lawyer indian woman divorced from snake who is convinced the family just needs to be together again and everything will work out. Murder, threatened racist mayhem, lines drawn, sides taken ....There was a time when I really liked Margaret Coel's books set in Arapaho country in Wyoming. Many, many years and all of Tony Hillerman's books have passed through my hands since. The Shadow Dancer isn't a bad mystery, it's just a little predictable and I am so over the theme of whether it's okay for an indian man/woman to be in love with someone who isn't. Just get on with it already.