Margaret Coel

A sacred Ethete ceremony of the Arapahos is disrupted when tribal chairman Harvey Castle is found murdered, and when the victim's nephew is accused, missionary pastor John O'Malley attempts to prove his innocence. Original.

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Lizzy Grayson

I enjoyed this book well enough. The mystery was interesting (although not especially clever), and I liked the characters. However, the portrayal of Catholicism is . . . interesting. Overall, I am happy for the positive portrayal, but some stuff is weird. She gets some stuff so exactly accurate (for example, the names of various vestments), but then implies that the people were able to get a steel drum as an altar because they "insisted on it" (yeah, you can insist all you want, the consecration ain't gonna be on a steel drum - or at least shouldn't). Additionally, any good priest is not going to hang around with a woman he has even possible feelings for. It doesn't matter how sure he is in his vow of chastity, if he is a good priest, he's going to avoid the near occasion of sin. Overall, definitely a good middle-of-the-night nursing read, but Agatha Christie remains the queen.

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