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In the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh comes Kirk Mitchell's latest suspense thriller, which reunites Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops torn between their heritage and the law.A fire-gutted police cruiser found in a remote part of the Navajo reservation bears the bodies of a tribal patrolman and his wife. Parker and Turnipseed know a cop's murder is never simple, raising show more countless questions and suspicions. When another murder is discovered, the case explodes into an otherworldly realm.
Both Parker, a Comanche, and Turnipseed, a Modoc, are well acquainted with the eerie shadow land between native myth and modern homicide investigation. Now they will have to touch minds with a murderer who has woven personal madness with Navajo myth to create his own reality—and with it, the need to kill and kill again.
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Well written, historically correct, and an engrossing read. Mitchell writes characters with whom I can identify with and feel for - even the ones I love to hate. I look forward to walking with Anna on her trip through darkness - and out the other side.
Well written, historically correct, and an engrossing read. Mitchell writes characters with whom I can identify with and feel for - even the ones I love to hate. I look forward to walking with Anna on her trip through darkness - and out the other side.
I liked the Anna Turnipseed and Emmett Parker characters, but the plot was too convoluted for me.
After the passing of Tony Hillerman and after reading many of his novels of the SW Four Corner area several times, I was please to find an author of a similar genre in Kirk Mitchell. "Spirit Sickness" was my first read, and I just picked up "Ancient Ones" from the library where several other titles are available. I will be enjoying my summer!
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- Anna Turnipseed; Emmet Quanah Parker
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- Anna Turnipseed felt ridiculous - and a little frightened that, after so many years, she was doing something this native.
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