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Officer Molly Bearpaw, crime investigator for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, probes the death of a woman shaman found hanging in a library. Suspects range from the local medicine man, afraid the shaman would take away business, to the wife of a man having an affair with the shaman. By the author of Seven Black Stones.Tags
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Jean Hager has written numerous novels, many under the pseudonyms Marlaine Kyle, Amanda McAllister, Sara North and Jeanne Stephens. Hager, who is one-eighth Cherokee and often explores Native American themes in her work. She received the Teepee Trophy award from the Oklahoma Writers Federation for best novel of 1977 for Terror in the Sunlight, and show more best novel of 1979 for Shadow of the Tamaracks. Her other books include A Suitable Marriage (1982), Seven Black Stones (1995), and Masked Dancers (1998). Jean Hager was born in 1932 in Maywood, Illinois. She married Kenneth C. Hager in 1950, and graduated from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma in 1969. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Spirit Caller
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Molly Bearpaw
- Important places
- Tahlequa, Oklahoma, USA
- Epigraph
- Listen! Ha! You have strayed from the pathway. Now you have drawn near to hearken. You are resting directly overhead.
- Dedication
- Dedicated to Genell Dellin, Teresa Miller, Marilyn Pappano, and Renee Wilson with love and gratitude for their friendship and support.
- First words
- Molly paused outside her office door to admire the black-bordered gild letters on the glass pane.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Would she ever be able to call him that to his face. Maybe. Someday.
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