Margaret Coel

Margaret Coel is the New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Wind River mystery series set among the Arapahos on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and featuring Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden. The latest is The Spider's Web (Sept. 2010). The novels have ... (more)received wide recognition. They have been on the bestseller lists of numerous newspapers, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Five novels have received the Colorado Book Award. THE SPIRIT WOMAN received the Willa Cather Award for Best Novel of the West and was a finalist for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Novel.

Monthly get-together to discuss both fiction and non-fiction titles.They meet upstairs in the Upstairs Reading Lounge. No registration required.

AAUW Authors Event at Falcon Dining Room

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel will discuss the latest novel in the Wind River mystery series, The Spider's Web, on Saturday, October 23 at 2 p.m. at the Ross-University Hills Branch Library. Desserts and beverages provided by Panera Bread. Set among the Arapahos, The Spider's Web features ... (more)Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley. Fellow author Tony Hillerman has called Coel "a master," and critics say her novels are "chock full of intrigue and imagination," and are "engaging blends of history, mystery, sexual tension and present-day life on the reservation."

Sept. 15. Los Alamos. Luncheon at 11:30, T-World Restaurant. For reservations, contact Books@OtowiStation.com. Signing at Otowi Station Bookstore, 6 p.m. 1350 Central Ave.

Margaret Coel will speak and sign her book The Silent Spirit. Remember that Readers Guild members can call ahead to reserve seats at this event.

Margaret Coel returns to MG to discuss and sign her non-Wind River Reservation suspense novel, Blood Memory. Blood Memory is set in Denver and features an investigative reporter, Catherine McLeod, and a Denver police detective, Nick Bustamante. Someone is trying to kill Catherine -- not because of something ... (more)she has written but because of something she is about to write. She has no idea of what it might be, but to save her own life, she must uncover the story. Find out more about the true story of Arapaho and Cheyenne claims of ancestral lands and struggles for the rights to build a Colorado casino when Margaret visits on Saturday, September 6, at 2:00 PM.

Margaret Coel will speak and sign her new book, BLOOD MEMORY.

Reception and Book Signing

Mystery authors Jacqueline Winspear, Margaret Coel, and David L. Robbins will join in a freewheeling conversation at the Williamsburg Library Theatre on March 31 at 7:00 p.m. Mystery expert Willetta L. Heising will moderate the panel as they talk about constructing mysteries, ... (more)developing characters, and dealing with the ups and downs of publishing. Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the award-winning Maisie Dobbs series (An Incomplete Revenge). Margaret Coel achieved critical and commercial success with her Wind River series (The Girl with Braided Hair). David L. Robbins (The Betrayal Game) is a best-selling author and 2008 Writer-in-Residence at William and Mary. A reception and book-signing will follow the event. - FREE, reservations/tickets not required