Winter's Child: A Wind River Mystery by Margaret Coel

 

I happen to own a copy of the first novel in this series: That was published in 1995, this novel was published in 2016. This novel conveys a strong impression that Ms. Coel knows there are a very limited number of novels left for her to write, whether that's about her own time or about the publisher/s deciding there wasn't enough money left in them, I don't know. It'd be a shame if she didn't have the opportunity to end this series on her own terms, at her own pace. There are some characters here that are very worth spending time with, and it's clear that Ms. Coel really likes the Arapaho and the Wind River reservation. I'll certainly be coming back to this series from time to time--I am a bit of a sucker for this sort of thing, apparently.

EDIT: I should add that I was impressed by the parallels in the novel between historic events (actual history, interpreted to suit the novelist's needs) and the present-day conflicts in the novel. Faulkner's line about the past not even being past seems to have been in mind when the novel was being written.