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If there's one thing that Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker knows, it's that the dead don't always stay dead. With him he carries the ghosts of a partner killed in action, three failed marriages, and a long affair with the bottle. And now he's about to face the most dangerous case of his career—one that begins with a body that doesn't stay buried.The corpse of a woman, brutally murdered and bizarrely mutilated, is discovered on Havasupai Nation land. Parker is show more paired with FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed in a hastily assembled task force of two. The two share a mixed Native American ancestry—and little else. As they are pulled deeper into a complex case, Parker suspects they are being led, like Custer to a Little Bighorn, into a killer's trap. At the heart of it are the dead, and history is the most lethal weapon of all.
Fans of Tony Hillerman will enjoy these novels by Kirk Mitchell, whose background as a sheriff on a reservation brings an exciting realism to the books.
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I’ve only recently begun to test the waters of detective fiction and police procedurals. With my toes just starting to get wet, I now find myself swept away in the current. This one is called “Cry Dance” by Kirk Mitchell.
The discovery, in his jurisdiction, of a corpse without a face, brings Emmet Quanah Parker, a Comanche federal agent into the middle of a crime involving multiple murders and Indian gaming. Though this was the first in a series, there was a back story divulged in spurts which formed an interesting dimension to the main character. His assigned partner for this investigation is Anna Turnipseed, another Native American, who was sent undercover to the casino being investigated. Life on a reservation, Indian culture show more in the modern world, the different jurisdictions for law in and around Indian land, behind the scenes in gaming – I found all that quite interesting. The author drew his setting of Indian land around the Grand Canyon with just the right mood.
I enjoyed this read tremendously – characterizations, dynamics of the characters’ relationships, setting, and story, all. show less
The discovery, in his jurisdiction, of a corpse without a face, brings Emmet Quanah Parker, a Comanche federal agent into the middle of a crime involving multiple murders and Indian gaming. Though this was the first in a series, there was a back story divulged in spurts which formed an interesting dimension to the main character. His assigned partner for this investigation is Anna Turnipseed, another Native American, who was sent undercover to the casino being investigated. Life on a reservation, Indian culture show more in the modern world, the different jurisdictions for law in and around Indian land, behind the scenes in gaming – I found all that quite interesting. The author drew his setting of Indian land around the Grand Canyon with just the right mood.
I enjoyed this read tremendously – characterizations, dynamics of the characters’ relationships, setting, and story, all. show less
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I came to this one after finding it on sale and wanting a start of a series. The characters are engaging and the descriptions are clear and imaginative. I will definitely read more in series.
I liked the story but wasn't my favorite.
I came to this one after finding it on sale and wanting a start of a series. The characters are engaging and the descriptions are clear and imaginative. I will definitely read more in series.
I liked the story but wasn't my favorite.
210 pages of book was how much I could take before I decided that enough was enough, now I’m just browsing through the pages, skipping parts just to get through the book. This is not enjoying a book, this is going back to school and forcing myself to read something I don’t want to read flashback…and God dammit I bought this book from amazon, looked forward to read it, but instead I discovered the cure for insomnia...
Review also posted on And Now for Something Completely Different and It's a Mad Mad World
Review also posted on And Now for Something Completely Different and It's a Mad Mad World
210 pages of book was how much I could take before I decided that enough was enough, now I’m just browsing through the pages, skipping parts just to get through the book. This is not enjoying a book, this is going back to school and forcing myself to read something I don’t want to read flashback…and God dammit I bought this book from amazon, looked forward to read it, but instead I discovered the cure for insomnia...
Review also posted on And Now for Something Completely Different and It's a Mad Mad World
Review also posted on And Now for Something Completely Different and It's a Mad Mad World
a Comanche BIA detective teams with Modoc FBI against killer from his past
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- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Emmet Quanah Parker; Anna Turnipseed
- Important places
- USA; Arizona, USA
- First words
- "You the BIA guy from Phoenix?"
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- 215
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, French
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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- 11
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