The Spirit Caller (Molly Bearpaw Mysteries) - Softcover

Hager, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446605956 ISBN 13: 9780446605953

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

In this novel Molly Bearpaw investigates the murder of a woman who tried to communicate with the soul of a dead Cherokee. But before she can declare the case closed, she must face some difficult truths about her own family.

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Review:

Of all the many children of Tony Hillerman--Native American investigators walking in the sizeable moccasin-steps of his Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee--Jean Hager's Molly Bearpaw is certainly one of the most interesting and believable. As major crimes investigator for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Molly has a one-room office in the lovely university town of Tahlequah in the Ozark foothills, a gun that she keeps locked in the glove compartment of her car, and a part-time assistant, a law student named Natalie Wind. It's Natalie's eccentric aunt, Talia Wind, who gets Molly's latest case started, when the former New Age disciple turned Cherokee medicine woman is found murdered in a haunted jailhouse. It wouldn't be a modern mystery if Molly didn't have a rich personal life, and in this one she's troubled by past and present relationships. Other Bearpaw stories in paperback are Ravenmocker, The Redbird's Cry, and Seven Black Stones.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A fourth adventure for Molly Bearpaw (Seven Black Stones, 1995, etc.), recently appointed Major Crimes Investigator for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, who's soon faced with a puzzle worthy of the hefty title. Talia Wind, whose niece Natalie works in Molly's office, has been found strangled, just outside the old Native American Research Library near Tahlequah. Talia, a self- proclaimed seeress, and husband Dell Greer had arrived in Eagle Rock from California a year ago, guided by Talia's channeler, and had bought land for their trailer from tribal leader Agasuyed Beaver. By year's end, Talia and Dell were divorced, and Talia, with her New Age views, meditation groups, and growing influence on women in the community, had made an enemy of Agasuyed and others as well. Talia's mission at the library, in the dead of night, had been to exorcise the ghosts rumored to inhabit the place. Molly, meantime, must investigate the case with little help from a hostile Sheriff while coping with meeting the father who'd left when she was four, unheard from all those years. Despite it all, Molly finds the murderer, barely escaping with her life in the process. Tidily plotted and mildly entertaining, with special appeal to aficionados of Native American lore. (Regional author tour) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0446605956
• ISBN 13: 9780446605953
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320