Manitou Canyon by William Kent Kreuger

 

So after reading one of Kreuger's novels, I've grabbed another one. They stand alone just fine, but there's some pleasure in seeing the romance from that book pay off as a marriage in this one. The characters change book to book; it's a series where it's OK that the people in it grow. This is definitely something of a crime novel, though it's not exactly a murder mystery--it kinda plays more like an action novel. Also the biggest criminals in it are mostly not prosecutable, which is ... interesting. And the ancient, inscrutable, imperturbable medicine man remains ancient, inscrutable, and imperturbable.